Worlds news is just not being seen. Alisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International, spoke on how Americans see today's world, covering just that issue. “The USA itself has 79% of total news coverage.” She stated. Miller went on to tell of how the news agencies have decreased global coverage by 50 percent.
She also spoke of how in the year that Korea agreed to dismantle their nuclear weapons, in Paris the IPCC released a study confirming human influence on global warming, and there was major flooding in India. In fact, there are no news networks in all of Russia, India, and South America. CBS, in total only has three people covering global news out side of Iraq.
Despite of the lack of news in America about the world, the number of Americans who state that they follow global news closely rose to 53 percent.
Where do Americans go to see the news? The highest percentage of us went to our all reliable TV. She went further to say the internet is really not much better. A study was done one what the most popular news stories cover, it turned out that they cover the same 23 basic stories that were covered by CBS.
Now, what are they reporting on anyway? The death of Anna Nicole Smith exceeded the amount of coverage of any country other than Iraq.
“The fact of the matter is reporting Brittney is cheaper.” Miller made this very clear, meaning that these type of stories are easy and cheep. Getting conversations with government officials and crime lords to report real news is harder.
Now the question is up to you. Miller in her closing line states. “I know we can do better, and can we afford not too?” This now goes from her hands and into yours. What will we as a people do about it?
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