THERE was a time when everybody involved with development knew exactly what to do. Rival camps disagreed with each other but were at least confident that they themselves were right and everyone else wrong. Today, with the exception of the International Monetary Fund and human rights campaigners, the worm of self-doubt has eaten into every school of opinion. A messy situation such as this could be taxing on journalists who strive to maintain public interest and support for development.

However, there is one magazine that has triumphed over the problem. It is called Moving Pictures and is published by the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE). A quarterly, it calls itself "a thematic guide to new films on the environment, development, human rights and health issues'. Inevitably, the title has a double meaning. It refers to what used to be called the