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A lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world. Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When? and Why? onto the news media. By employing a range of theoretical perspectives and a large variety of examples, the author demonstrates the way in which our perceptions of the world are constructed by the news media.
Where does World News come from?
Where does World News come from?
The Geography of Centres and Peripheries
There is a significant difference between the capacity of a blanket and that of a net to gather fodder for daily newspaper columns and television air time …
The narrower the intersections between the mesh – the more blanketlike the net – the more can be captured … Instead of blanketing the world by their independent efforts, the news media and the news services leave the same sorts of hole in the news net, holes justified by a professionally shared notion of news.
Gaye Tuchman, ‘Space and the newsnet’.1
Another dimension of social construction is the unequal coverage of geographic space. Are journalists and other observers evenly distributed around the globe? Or ...
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