Collection and Flow of World News

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Collection and Flow of World News

• Problems and Patterns

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Origins

• James Gordon Bennett, founder of New York Herald
  in 1835 used pigeon service to fly in news
  reports from distant points.

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Origins

• Pony Express came next
• in 1836 express pony could transport important
  news stories between New York and New Orleans in
  less than seven days!

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Origins

• Today news agencies use telephone, computer,
  cable, radio, mobile antennas, satellites to
  transmit up to 12,000 words per minute

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Need for News Agencies

• as the demand grew, publications did not have the
  technical and financial means to gather and
  transmit all the news demanded by its readers.

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Need for News Agencies

• By selling their product to an increasing number
  of newspapers, News agencies could supply a large
  amount of news at less expense than a newspaper
  would incur if it were to gather news on its own

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Major world news agencies

• Agence France-Presse
• Associated Press
• Reuters
• Telegrafnoie Agenstvo Sovietskavo Soiuza (TASS)
• United Press International

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Supplemental News Agencies

• New York Times News Service
• Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
• Dow Jones News Service

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Video/Audio News Services

• Visnews- owned by Reuters
• World Television News (WTN) owned by Capital
  Cities/ABC (80), Britain's ITN (10) and
  Australia's Channel 9 (10)
• CNN (1980) CNN International (1985)
• BBC radio (1932) and BBC World Service Television
  (1991).

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World News Problems and Patterns

• News contents from developing countries comes
  from western agencies

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World News Problems and Patterns

• Heavy imbalance in news flow favoring western
  countries
• News flows from west to east

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World News Problems and Patterns

• Stereotypical portrayal of developing nations-
  focus on violent conflict, crisis, catastrophes
  etc.

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World News Problems and Patterns

• Cultural imperialism?
• Authentic, traditional and local culture battered
  out of existence by indiscriminate dumping of
  large quantities of foreign media products