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January 26, 2008

Media Dyslexia and the World Social Forum

by Perla Wilson, TerraViva, Chile - "Social inequality doesn’t make the news". No one has ever said that the relationship between the social world and mass media outlets is easy, even less so in the case of initiatives to foster a new political approach such as the World Social Forum.

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