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Thursday, January 08, 2009

US Networks' international news coverage at record low in 2008


By Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

Washington - "Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.

"Squeezed out by intense coverage of the presidential election campaign and the domestic consequences of skyrocketing oil prices and the subsequent credit crisis, international and overseas events received by far the least attention from the 30-minute evening news programmes of the three networks - the primary source of national and international news for most U.S. citizens - of any since the report was first published in 1988 ..."
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