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[KovenRonald at aol.com]

Dear Wolfgang --

You (and others) seem to have a basic misunderstanding about the World Press 
Freedom Committee. It has both labor and management affiliates united for the 
defense and furtherance of press freedom. WPFC's activities are not in defense 
of anyone's commercial interests but for the press freedom interests of the 
independent print, broadcast and online press, regardless of their forms of 
ownership -- public, private or cooperative, but above all, independent.

Our opposition to the "Right to Communicate" has been based on its origin as 
a collective rather than an individual human right invented by the Soviet bloc 
during the Cold War. The term has continued to be used as a code word for a 
collectivist approach, with all the dangers that represents for press freedom 
as an individuakl human right. Instead, we have argued for the implementation 
of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If that were 
actually to be brought into force everywhere, there would be a true right to 
communicate worldwide.

Best regards, Rony Koven, European Representative, WPFC


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