Former Canadian news broadcaster Catherine Cano once said that American broadcasters “don’t cover international news, they cover American international stories.”
analysed coverage of global issues at one of the big three US cable news outlets, and what it found was damning.Maria Bustillos combed through 100 stories posted on news channel MSNBC’s YouTube page in October and found that just three were linked to world affairs.
Diehard viewers of the network would “learn virtually nothing of events taking place outside the United States, which is where 7.57 billion of the earth’s 7.9 billion people live,” Bustillos wrote emphatically. “Cable news explained nothing to its audience about the facts on the ground in Afghanistan, preferring to turn the withdrawal of US troops into a political circus starring the nascent Biden administration,” Bustillos noted.
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