Basic TV Reporting, 2nd Edition

Covering the World

Some issues and processes assume an international dimension–changes to the global economy, the breakdown of old orders and old certainties, the famine and disease of some countries and the pollution or consumption of others. The war in Bosnia was described by some journalists as the war you could catch a bus ride to. The Gulf War was fought not only in the desert, but in our homes in every news bulletin. The effect of television news is built into the military and diplomatic policy of many governments. Social commentators will provide volumes of research on the news values of the media, but the journalists will maintain that they are primarily interested in those events which will have some direct bearing on the audiences ...