Example: What the world really looks like and what people who listen to the news see on the world map
Land Mass
News Map
Based on ?
American network & cable news organizations dedicated to news stories by country
Discuss recent news
North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear facilities
Massive flooding in Indonesia
In Paris, the IPCC released its study confirming man's impact on global warming
Analyze the proportion of news
American news : 79% of the world
a lot of Iraq news
Russia, China, India news just reached 1%
The other countires news : 21% of the world
Analyzed all the news stories and removed just one story
This story eclipsed every country except Iraq,and received 10 times the coverage of the IPCC report.
Ask a question - Analyze the problem
The real question
Is this distorted worldview what we want for Americans in our increasingly interconnected world?
I know we can do better.
And can we afford not to? Thank you.
Summary
Put it all together
Could help explain why today's college graduates, as well as less educated Americans, know less about the world than their counterparts did 20 years ago.
If you think it's simply because we are not interested,
you would be wrong.
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In recent years, Americans who say they closely follow global news most of the time grew to over 50 percent.
And what about the web?
The most popular news sites don't do much better.
Last year, Pew and the Colombia J-School analyzed the 14,000 stories
that appeared on Google News' front page.
And they, in fact, covered the same 24 news events.
Similarly, a study in e-content showed that much of global news from U.S. news creators is recycled stories from the AP wire services and Reuters, and don't put things into a context that people can understand their connection to it.
And this lack of global coverage is all the more disturbing when we see where people go for news.
Local TV news looms large,
And unfortunately only dedicates 12 percent of its coverage to international news.
So, why don't we hear more about the world?
One reason is that news networks have reduced the number of their foreign bureaus by half.
eg. There are no network news bureaus in all of Africa, India or South America
-- places that are home to more than two billion people.
