If you subscribe to cable television or own a satellite dish, you are probably inundated with American news coverage.
Even if you receive the basic Canadian channels or read Canadian newspaper dailies, you likely receive a high dosage of stories originating from U.S. reporters.
While most people recognize there’s an “American slant” to the stories, a recent study confirms and defines that slant.
The details of the study appeared recently in an INEWS story which concluded the American media “have little understanding of what the rest of the world really thinks of them.”
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The analysis appeared in the Media Studies Journal, published in New York.
The Journal’s editor, Everette Dennis, was quoted as saying the rest of the world has a love-hate relationship with the U.S. press:
“I think people outside the U.S. seem to love American entertainment and popular culture.
“They’re very bothered by the tendency of the U.S. media not to cover many countries, not to cover them very systematically or well.
“People admire the rigor of the U.S. media. In many places they like our ability to at least try to separate fact and opinion.
“On the other hand, they think we don’t analyze very well, they think we’re pretty superficial in our treatment of many, many subjects.”
The journal also noted the U.S. needs a broader understanding of global events. Dennis said the U.S. needs to open doors to the outside world:
“I think we will begin to see the reversal … of the news flowing from the U.S. to the rest of the world and the U.S. being the principal provider of media content. My hope is that we’ll move toward a global media system.”
This remains to be seen with the U.S. – and Canadian – media.
