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FIVE LAWS OF ‘MIL’

In essence, the Five Laws focus

on competencies that address
knowledge in all formats:

(1) information/media are critical
to civic engagement and
sustainable development and

equally relevant in all forms;
(2) every citizen is a creator of

information/knowledge;
(3) information/media messages
are not always value neutral

and truth should be made
understandable;

(4) every citizen has a right to
access and understand new
information, knowledge,

messages;
(5) media/information literacy

is acquired as a process.