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<text>
<title>
Column Warns of Dangers from Foreign Television
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Joint Publications Research Service, June 19, 1991
Morocco: Column Warns of Dangers from Foreign Television
</hdr>
<body>
<p>By. A. Ghallab in column "With the People", [Rabat, AL-'ALAM in
Arabic, 15 May 91, p. 1].
</p>
<p> Television is on the march across continents.
</p>
<p> Morocco is one of the countries over which it will advance
from Europe and soon from America.
</p>
<p> Television is a civilized means of communicating ideas,
cultures, and information. It is a medium on the march whose
advance cannot be stopped. Those to whom it has advanced by
satellite, either directly or using parabolic antennas, become
unwitting victims of an operation of pillage. Their sons and
daughters sit until after midnight, mouths agape in
astonishment, eyes wide with terror, as they witness bestial
practices that the Devil would blush to mention coming into
their bedrooms via "civilized" telecommunication. Their fathers
cannot suppress this "freedom" and their government has not
been able to block the media "cultural agreements" that permit
European and American "civilization" to advance via the little
magic screen.
</p>
<p> Some Spanish, French, and Italian channels have reached
northern and eastern Morocco due to their proximity, just as
they have begun to visit the roofs of apartments buildings and
villas in Morocco, so that licentiousness can jump from the
roof into the small rooms where fathers and mothers sit with
their sons and daughters and into the bedrooms of adolescent
boys and girls.
</p>
<p> I am not suggesting any particular means of stopping what is
knocking at our door. My only responsibility is to sound the
alarm. He who has been warned...
</p>
<p> The alarm I am sounding comes with the report that has been
circulating for weeks, that the Ministry of Information will
soon release the French television channel TF-5 after having
suppressed it since it crossed the border in a media raid on
Morocco. In fact, what was reaching Morocco on this channel had
a good informational, news, and cultural character and had been
carefully thought out to transmit francophone thinking to the
audience. That this was a raiding operation is now beyond
dispute. However, the channel sometimes took the place of the
degenerate francophone thinking that the two Moroccan channels
broadcast.
</p>
<p> Whatever the case, the French fifth channel will be added to
the two Moroccan channels. There is no objection. However,
opening Moroccan airspace to other uncensored channels either
directly or by means of the parabolic antenna involves a danger
that threatens the society with disintegration and dissolution.
So we sound the alarm.
</p>
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