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Wed Nov 25, 2015, 02:06 PM

Matrosov (1,098 posts)

26. Journalism 101

If a tornado kills 12 people in Alabama, it's breaking news in the US, but who in Tunisia would care or even hear about it?

What is newsworthy and what isn't depends on your outlet's primary audience. For example, Charlie Sheen's HIV was a big deal here for a few days, but I'm sure the news in Nigeria or Malaysia discussed matters that were more important to them.

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34 replies	Author	Time	Post
interesting to see mass media coverage of a bomb attack on a non-European country... [View all]	ellenrr	Nov 2015	OP
I just hear morning joe demean our President last half hour. I just turned it off.	riversedge	Nov 2015	#1
IOW, people here are bad people because they react like normal people	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#2
oh now I get it. If I don't know people of a particular ethnicity...	ellenrr	Nov 2015	#3
What's it like	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#4
pretty nice, esp. compared to the shit you wallow in	ellenrr	Nov 2015	#6
Lol...good answer!	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#8
Why is it you equate 'value' to media time?	Bluenorthwest	Nov 2015	#9
Wow, you certainly woke up in a cheery	Tipperary	Nov 2015	#11
awesomenest answer ever. you win the internet FOREVER !!	Hiraeth	Nov 2015	#15
There are 7 billion of us and counting.	Igel	Nov 2015	#16
I don't put much stock in the normal people argument	el_bryanto	Nov 2015	#12
And I don't get excited when Turkish soccer fans boo the Marseillaise	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#13
So in what sense are you Beyond Geography?	el_bryanto	Nov 2015	#18
In this sense...a helluva book	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#19
Oh, hey! I've read that book	maxsolomon	Nov 2015	#30
How many making a statement about Paris are of French descent or have spent any time there?	cui bono	Nov 2015	#31
Actually, AP did have an article on this	nitpicker	Nov 2015	#5
Oh please	malaise	Nov 2015	#7
Cable news focuses on things that fit the narrative and help them sell the current war.	GreatGazoo	Nov 2015	#10
Everything always has to be the same or it's somebody's fault.	Waiting For Everyman	Nov 2015	#14
Well said. eom	cwydro	Nov 2015	#17
Check out what terrorist group Boko Harem has been doing in Nigeria.	Scuba	Nov 2015	#20
what newspapers are you reading?	maxsolomon	Nov 2015	#23
Local coverage of latest Boko Harem is zero, while much smaller Paris attack continues to lead.	Scuba	Nov 2015	#28
I ended my Seattle Times subscription when they endorsed GWB in 2000.	maxsolomon	Nov 2015	#29
a moron who would deny that the mass media value white lives over non-white lives is the same	ellenrr	Nov 2015	#21
But that's not all you said in the OP	BeyondGeography	Nov 2015	#22
The media have their marching orders and that's to get US to war	riderinthestorm	Nov 2015	#24
this is an attack on a "government" target	maxsolomon	Nov 2015	#25
That too. Nt	uppityperson	Nov 2015	#34
Journalism 101	Matrosov	Nov 2015	#26
Yup	daredtowork	Nov 2015	#27
My LBN thread sank like a rock	KamaAina	Nov 2015	#32
The comparison between Beirut and Paris is interesting	Jim Lane	Nov 2015	#33

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