The seventh of eight programmes News of the Second World
'You in the West sometimes don't understand our way of life. We have such a saying: don't intrude in another man's monastery with your own Bible. Your Bible is good for you. Our Bible is good for us.'
Melor Sturua is Foreign Editor of the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia. The Soviet Union believes in government control of news and information. To Western eyes this is censorship, but to many emerging nations it is an attractive model. Peter France follows the publication of one day's edition of Izvestia and talks to MELOR STURUA about the role of the journalist and the press in Soviet society.
Film editor MARTIN CRUMP
Assistant producer DAVID POWELL Series producer WILLIAM NICHOLSON Producer JOHN ARCHER