The above image is from a recent in which Alisa Miller (CEO of Public Radio International) gives a presentation discussing . The map shows "the number of seconds that American network and cable organizations dedicated to news stories by country in February of 2007." You can clearly see that the United States and Iraq are totally bloated, and far outweigh the news coverage of all other countries.
At the conclusion of the presentation, Alisa says, "The real question: Is this distorted worldview what we want for Americans in our increasingly interconnected world?" I submit that it is not.
(It's only 4:30 long).
This begs the question: Where do you get your global news? I get mine from the , and I occasionally watch the on PBS.
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i use BBC as well. a couple others are al jazeera and worldpress, which offers headlines from international newspapers.