Message-ID: <v02130502ace45d565ac2@[196.20.20.2]> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:18:00 GMT+0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Developing countries' communications systems To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 6:01 PM 30/11/95, Michael Kay wrote: [...] >> > > It might indeed be very cool. But there's going to be an intersting
>> > > cultural bridge to cross. Having read many of these papers while
>>overseas,
>> > > they're not the NY Times! Nor are they even USA Today. The news in such
>> > > papers is dreadfully local (and I don't mean that in an
>>imperialistic way),
>> > > incomprehensible due to the excessive use of acronyms (as in India), and
>> > > Yellow. Journalistic standards vary greatly from what we are
>>accustomed to
>> > > in the U.S. Indeed, there are vast differences with Britain or even
>>Canada.
>> > > At the very least, it'll be an experience!
I don't get the point. If you want NY Times or USA Today type of newspapers why do you look at foreign ones? [...] >> cases. To often US reporters dont speak the local language or understand
>> the context under which the news event is taking place-if they bother to
>> leave the local Hilton for anything at all.
This is an obeservation I make from reading Time and Newsweek.Whenever they send stories in from countries I know something about I find that their reporters can't speak the local language or research incredibly superficial. Even more fascinating when you read something on the same topic in Der Spiegel who virtually always gets the details right. (They comment on occasion in a way the I can't follow but that is opinion, the facts are there :-)-O)
And you guys have never read our Observer! Blood, Mayhem and divorces (verbatim court proceedings inclduing the evidence photos on the front page) and they have a "Devil's Advocate", who insults Ministers for a living. The worst newspaper in the world and I buy it every week :-)-O
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