POP/ROCK - May 8, 1989

Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof, after blasting the media for getting in the way of world understanding, has urged the creation of a global broadcast university. “It is essential that people be given access to information on matters that influence them,” the Irish musician-composer told a Saturday gathering of international broadcasters in Atlanta. Calling television “a hindrance to understanding” and “the single worst anti-democratic force in the world today.” Geldorf told the broadcasters that the mass media concentrates on images, quick interviews and controversy at the expense of improving understanding.