MacBride report

The commission called for democratization of communication and strengthening of national media to avoid dependence on external sources, among others.

The MacBride report lamented that the quality of "communicative content" had started to guide the academy in the scientific discourse.

The commission's seminal session on new technologies to address the identified problems, was hosted by India at New Delhi in March 1979.

The final report was delivered to M’Bow in April 1980 and was approved by consensus in the 21st General Conference of UNESCO in Belgrade.

Because of controversy surrounding the report and the withdrawal of support by the UNESCO leadership in the 1980s for its ideas, the book went out of print and was difficult to obtain.