"In the early days of television, programme content was almost totally imported. Fourteen years the programming situation still reflects an excessive dependence on imported television programmes." (author)
"Of the five nineteen-century general-interest newspapers that have survived to present, the largest is the Daily Gleaner. Established as a literary paper in 1833 by Joshua DeCordova, the paper, the following year, became an advertising sheet, DeCordova's Advertising Sheet. The present Gleaner dates its existence to 1834. ...Except for two Roman Catholic newspapers, the only other newspapers in the region that were developed before the twentieth century are the Nassau Gaurdian, Voice of St. Lucia, Barbados Advocate News and Bermuda Royal Gazette. " (author)
"A discussion confined to the legal constraints on the press is a clear invitation to deal with law to the exclusion of the fundamental problems facing the mass media in a region which appears to be in a state of political, social, and ideological transition. This is so because the law exerts a disappearing influence on fundamental social and political issues." (author)
