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All news is local : the failure of the media to reflect world events in a globalized age / Richard C. Stanton.

By: Publication details: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.Description: v, 221 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0786430699 (pbk.) :
  • 9780786430697 (softcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN4731 .S679 2007
Contents:
Imagining news -- Presentation of global image: editors, reporters and journalists -- Democracy and media: obligations of international participation -- The power triangle: media, corporations and governments -- The continuing transformation of the public sphere: from Jurgen Habermas to Osama bin Laden -- Global institutions of persuasion and influence: issues and events imagined as news -- Global news institutions: the United Nations -- Trade and participation: conflict and effects of global capital and the World Trade Organization -- Citizens and participation: the role of NGOs -- Rethinking global news media.
Summary: "This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It argues that the framework of localization is fragile and unable to cope with the issues, events, agents and institutions of globalization that exist, and that the current model of news gathering and reporting requires rethinking"--Provided by publisher.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PN 4731 .S679 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Copy Type:01 - Books Available 251717

"This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It argues that the framework of localization is fragile and unable to cope with the issues, events, agents and institutions of globalization that exist, and that the current model of news gathering and reporting requires rethinking"--Provided by publisher.

Imagining news -- Presentation of global image: editors, reporters and journalists -- Democracy and media: obligations of international participation -- The power triangle: media, corporations and governments -- The continuing transformation of the public sphere: from Jurgen Habermas to Osama bin Laden -- Global institutions of persuasion and influence: issues and events imagined as news -- Global news institutions: the United Nations -- Trade and participation: conflict and effects of global capital and the World Trade Organization -- Citizens and participation: the role of NGOs -- Rethinking global news media.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

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