International News System

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International News System

• Global news communication is of fairly recent
  origin.
• It only expanded greatly since WWII along with
  the modern information society.
• The first transistor appeared in 1948.
• The first generation of the global INTELSAT
  system of communication satellites went into
  operation in 1965.

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International News System

• It is largely an outgrowth of Western News Media
  -- U.K., U.S. and to a lesser degree France
  Germany
• Today, the world reacts politically much more
  quickly and perhaps emotionally to events than
  ever before.

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The Ethic of Western Journalism

• The first duty of the press is to obtain the
  earliest and most correct intelligence of the
  events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing
  them, to make them the common property of the
  nation. The duty of the journalist is to present
  to his!! Readers not such things as statecraft
  would wish them to know but the truth as near as
  he !! can attain it
• By an editor of
  the Times of London

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The Ethic of Western Journalism

• What we read was the ideal, actual practice is
  often much differentwhy?
• Comprimising ties to the government
• Independent media are subject to varying controls
  from corporate interests that own them.
• Yet, the news media of the West have more freedom
  than media of other nations and greater financial
  resources and technology.

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The World News Services

• AP
• UPI
• Reuters
• AFP
• TASS
• As shown they all come from current or former
  super powers (UK France owe more to
  relationships developed during their imperial
  past than their geopolitical importance)

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Second tier agencies

• Dpa in Germany
• Kyodo News service in Japan
• ANSA in Italy
• EFE in Spain
• Mena in Egypt
• Further, many national agencies serve as
  important vital links, especially in the
  developing nations. These national agencies stand
  as key gatekeepers, deciding which news can and
  can not be distributed to the local media.passe
  though..look at Iran!!!

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Foreign Correspondents

• Some of the great newspapers of the world
  maintain their own correspondents.
• Several newspapers such as the NY Times and the
  Washington Post, the LA Times and the Guardian
  sell their news to other newspapers at home and
  abroad.
• Your book lists bureaus and correspondents of
  major U.S. paperssee page 34.

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World News on TV

• Two very important TV news services Reuters and
  WTN
• The majority of TV systems around the world
  depend on these two services for all of their
  world news on TV.
• The CNN phenomenon, BBC world and Euronews!!