TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robertson,Alexa
TI  - Global news: reporting conflicts and cosmopolitanism 
T2  - Global crises and the media
SN  - 9781433124259
AV  - PN4784.V56 R63 2015
U1  - 303.6 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
KW  - Violence
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - War
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Objectivity
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Mass media and globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The global village and the ivory tower -- Colliding worlds -- A world in crisis: atlas reports -- Brave new world -- Another world: Europe as other -- A world of difference
N2  - Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the 'new media' crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations to political power, being variously privately-, publicly-, or state-owned, backed by corporations, democratic states, authoritarian regimes, and ruling dynasties. Despite their differences, however, they have much in common. Their journalists espouse the universal values of professionalism and objectivity and speak to their global audiences in English. This book explores the different theoretical worlds of global media studies, takes a rare look at content, has a comparative perspective, and moves beyond the conflict frame that has dominated much of the literature in the field
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