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Is there such a thing as “trends” in information? Where do you draw the line between information and entertainment? What’s more important: the story or the way you deliver it? Do we have to “sell” information the way we would other types of programming? In THE WORLD CHALLENGE, from a studio in Canada, actor Peter Ustinov tells the story of three crucial moments in the political history of Egypt, Congo and Cuba based on Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber’s best-seller. Somewhere close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, two Russian soldiers, prisoners of the Afghan guerillas give a unique and desperate account of a war hard to report on: THE DAMNED OF THE USSR. In DESER WASTES OR FLOODWTAERS a Japanese crew takes on the global issues of deforestation, narrated story from all over the world. The picture coverage is dressed in the latest electronics. A Swiss crew is confronted with the catastrophic events at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. For some time they had been covering THE FOOTBALL FANS of two teams in their hometown. They had chosen to report on ... Liverpool and Juventus. This session will discuss trends in informative programming: entertaining information versus the story...