MACARAIG, GERALD

N O N E W S T O D AY MERCED, CHATRINA
BSTM 412
 Transnational conglomerates, in this view, are much less
interested than local media outlets in providing news and
information necessary for citizens. People are encouraged to think
of products, not politics. • The oligopoly's single-minded interest
in profits results in mass content rather than local content.

 The disastrous influence on news and what used to be called

‘public affairs reporting’. Rather than producing homegrown
programming on public affairs and issues, local media outlets
carry the mass-produced content of their conglomerate owners.

 Daya Kishan Thussu decries the ‘poverty of news’

 Results have been very devastating for international
news reporting.
 News Media in China, India and Japan have
relatively few correspondents outside their homeland.
 Shahira Fahmy (2010) studied foreign affairs
reporting after 9/11
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