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Major TV channels pulling out of Iraq

on 29 Dec 2008

The United States three mainstream broadcast networks, namely ABC, CBS and NBC, have stopped sending full time correspondents to Iraq. At the same time the channels are trying to bolster their numbers in Afghanistan and Pakistan."Americans like their wars movie length and with a happy ending," [said Mike Boettcher,...more


The forgotten victims in Somalia

on 27 Aug 2008 | 4

By now the whole newspaper reading world has heard of the Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout who was kidnapped in Somalia earlier this week. Some of the world is also aware that Australian snapper Nigel Brennan was also kidnapped at the same time. Google search on ""Amanda Lindhout" Somalia" and you...more


More on the death of foreign news reporting

on 21 Jul 2008

One of the least favourite (yet most common) topics of this blog since we started has been the decline in foreign news coverage and the various attempts to try and rescue it. The New York Times, quoting the latest Pew Research report today, suggests the grim tidings are only set...more


Darfur and the media attention deficit

on 09 Jul 2008 | 3

Ethan Zuckerman asks some great questions about Darfur and media attention on his blog. I dropped a comment, but it might be worth pulling together a few threads here. The general feeling is that "attention paid to Darfur is unprecedented" - but was it? Is it? If we feed a...more