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Foreign News Coverage in the US
My sister has recently been in the US, and mentioned how little international news was broadcast on their networks..
I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this (either if you live in the US, or have visited).
Are other countries showing similar trends towards showing foreign news??
The excuse my sister heard for this lack of news is that the US is such a large country, that it has plenty local news to focus on before focussing on foreign news etc etc..
What are the implications of such a view point that foreign news is simply not important to news broadcasters??
it's akin to the iron curtain, the purpose is isolation. but rather than forbid the outside news, they just omit it, and hope they can make life hard enough for you that you will never bother to go look things up.
it's terrible.
they probably do but its probably on the less commercial channels
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| Originally posted by JohnSmith it's akin to the iron curtain, the purpose is isolation. but rather than forbid the outside news, they just omit it, and hope they can make life hard enough for you that you will never bother to go look things up. it's terrible. |
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| Originally posted by Terpsichore Have to agree with you. I lived in the US for one year and the Internet is the only way to find some news about other countries. They just don't care. |
there is a language barrier to that of most european countries, and two big oceans separating us from the rest of the world... That helped us win the revolutionary war, and it helps explain our distance from the rest of the world in terms of news.
Language barrier? Half the world speaks english (or tries to). You can visit almost the entire world, speak only english, and i garanty that more than 90% will understand you.
Well Europe is separated by that ocean as well from the america, but still we get most of the important news from there.
And yes, I agree with you all, American foreing news aren't good at all. I lived there for two years, and it is amazing to see what they think of the rest of the world. When I was there in 1995-1997, they still had maps of Soviet Union!, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia on their european maps. And not just like old maps, but new maps which they were printing out to kids and nobody told them that was wrong. Also, lot of kids there (7th and 8th grade at the time I was there) asked me if Croatia was in Africa! or if we have elephants roaming around!!! They were also very surprised at my ability to use telephone. Some even didn't know where Europe is or even what it was. There's been a test about geographical litteracy on the www.nationalgeographic.com and of course, american kids did worst. America is too closed in on itself, and even when people try to be open about the rest of the world, they assume everyone is coming from tribe-like communities that exist only in some parts of Africa nowadays, which makes them look arrogant and stupid. Probably because all they see about other countries is documentaries, which usually don't concentrate on new urban areas, but mostly on traditional ways of living and history.
Just took that test, and i was surprised at how easy that was. Not to brag, but it wasn't difficult. But where lies the problem then? If the problems ly with the documenteries is it then so hard to make new ones that portray the world right? Maybe documenteries about the breakup of Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union. And if that doesn't help, radical reforms in the education system. Other suggestions?
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| helps explain our distance from the rest of the world in terms of news. |
So it's not so much due to geographical isolation as to isoliniast behavior, correct?
I think that's predominately the stigma of the US Citizen.
Like anything else however, we can't generalize. I've met many Americans while traveling, and those folks knew, and weren't ignorant about what was happening in the rest of the world. For the same reason, you'll find some ignorant (insert your people here), it all really depends on the individual.
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I was in the states this time last year. I must agree that their foreign news coverage is pretty poor. I watched CNN basically every night and they only had a few snippets of news about Europe and all the hype surrounding the Euro. Probably because back then US was too concerned about the war in Afghanistan.
However, other news network like the ABC had more content on foreign affairs. They even had a report on the Sydney bushfires and our own NSW Premier Bob Carr was commenting on how pathetic these young firebugs were, having nothing to do but to cause absolute havoc.
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| Originally posted by JohnSmith it's akin to the iron curtain, the purpose is isolation. but rather than forbid the outside news, they just omit it, and hope they can make life hard enough for you that you will never bother to go look things up. it's terrible. |
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| Originally posted by Terpsichore Have to agree with you. I lived in the US for one year and the Internet is the only way to find some news about other countries. They just don't care. It is also that Americans are very bad at geography so they can't locate most countries on the globe (< no joke). |
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| Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Well Europe is separated by that ocean as well from the america, but still we get most of the important news from there. And yes, I agree with you all, American foreing news aren't good at all. I lived there for two years, and it is amazing to see what they think of the rest of the world. When I was there in 1995-1997, they still had maps of Soviet Union!, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia on their european maps. And not just like old maps, but new maps which they were printing out to kids and nobody told them that was wrong. Also, lot of kids there (7th and 8th grade at the time I was there) asked me if Croatia was in Africa! or if we have elephants roaming around!!! They were also very surprised at my ability to use telephone. Some even didn't know where Europe is or even what it was. There's been a test about geographical litteracy on the www.nationalgeographic.com and of course, american kids did worst. America is too closed in on itself, and even when people try to be open about the rest of the world, they assume everyone is coming from tribe-like communities that exist only in some parts of Africa nowadays, which makes them look arrogant and stupid. Probably because all they see about other countries is documentaries, which usually don't concentrate on new urban areas, but mostly on traditional ways of living and history. |
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| � Today: Your child and hearing loss � Dateline: What are you really paying in the rush at the register? � Today: Dealing with in-laws for the holidays � Today: Fixing up furniture for the holidays � Today: Keeping your credit score straight � Dateline: Scorsese�s history of New York � Dateline: Kids have easy access to violent video games � Nightly News: LAPD considers fewer car chases � Today: Treating teen depression � Today: Reducing the risks of food illness � Today: Staying healthy while you travel � Dateline: Friend of alleged sniper says wife was real target � Today: Converting your home into cash � Today Book Club for December: �Paradise Alley� |
Programmes that kick ass:
CNN
-Q&A
-Insight
BBC World
HardTalk
As for Belgium, I would rate our news 8/10
For the Belgians & Dutch: TerZake & Netwerk.
in the 16 years i lived here, in canada, news coverage of the world is good to very good. some local chanels reserve something like 2 minutes to world affairs but i tend to not watch those crapy chanels anyways. the thing i noticed that slowly the amount of time reserved to world affairs has shrinked at prime time news (at about 6pm).
in Syria, its quite the contrary, its all about the world and very little about the country itself, except maybe who the president recieved or such bs
i used to get directv and have access to about a 150 local and news channel from the US and i was always dismayed at the little news coverage reserved to the "outside world"
and contrary to what other believes, i think its made on purpose to reserve more time for local "dog got killed in car accident news" than "war in africa and such", its not a conspiracy per say, its just very hard for me to explain. watch "bowling for columbine" to get a hint
The BBC comes on in Connecticut on like PBS or some shit from 11:00pm -12:00am, I enjoy watching that because it isnt just Briatin or the U.S its EVERYWHERE in the world. And bbc.co.uk is also nice. 
How fucked up is it that I have to go on ANOTHER country's website to get news about my country?
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| Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior How fucked up is it that I have to go on ANOTHER country's website to get news about my country? |
all true. I live in the US and its funny how a story comes out on american news and when you hear about it from foriegn news its a complete different story. Like about how S. Korean Demonstraters are angered about the US killing two young children so they are attacking american soldiers in their embassy's. They made them look really bad but when i heard the whole story they had many other reasons why they are mad which the US dont want their citizens to know about.
SO GO READ YOUR LOCAL NEWS!!! I don't understand why people complain so much about cnn and american news in general. YES it does have an American focus because it is an AMERICAN news channel. Who's going to most likely watch it??? AMERICANS! So of course these news channels are going to have a geographical bias. Although we don't have a lot of news from Europe we have a lot from South America because of geography. Are you saying that your local news channels are unbiased in covering stories from across the entire WORLD??? A) Are you watching the right news shows??? American news has a local news show FOLLOWED by a worldwide news show. B) Time how much news coverage your show has within a 5000 mile radius and time how much time is spent outside of that radius. News in general is going to be geographically biased to appeal to the population. They need to make money same as any other tv network.
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| Originally posted by Trance Plant TOP TV NEWS STORIES � Today: Your child and hearing loss � Dateline: What are you really paying in the rush at the register? � Today: Dealing with in-laws for the holidays � Today: Fixing up furniture for the holidays � Today: Keeping your credit score straight � Dateline: Scorsese�s history of New York � Dateline: Kids have easy access to violent video games � Nightly News: LAPD considers fewer car chases � Today: Treating teen depression � Today: Reducing the risks of food illness � Today: Staying healthy while you travel � Dateline: Friend of alleged sniper says wife was real target � Today: Converting your home into cash � Today Book Club for December: �Paradise Alley� LOL |
its been said before but america is different. People outside of america can be told part of the truth because they cant change things, if enough american people got together after being told the hard unpleasant truth that their leaders are utter criminals could change things. Its happened before, ordinary people can make a difference, course if you were in the USA ruling elite you cant allow that to happen.
I would hope that if average americans really knew how its governments policies and those of its corporations affect the world they would do something to stop it. The training of death squads, the assassinations, the CIA backed coups, the indiscriminate bombing of countries that havent done anything to the USA, the sanctions regimes against countries like Iraq and Cuba. I could go on for page after page but whats the point.
The americans need to be kept in the dark, surely anyone that knew that their president cheated to win the 2000 election would never vote for him. Im sure that the average foreigner knows far more about the workings of america than the average american does.
Sadly I know exactly what sort of hateful people run america, I only need to turn on Fox News. "We report, you obey"
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