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Post by thesupermoop on Jan 9, 2019 12:43:58 GMT
There's been practically nothing in the English-speaking press about the Yellow Vest protests in France - and they're huge here.
Conversely, the French press does precious little Trump and/or Brexit.
I've always thought of at least the big media houses as being somewhat international in outlook - and this seems to be disappearing.
Am I reading this right? Is it a new thing, or was it always the case?
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Post by rayge on Jan 9, 2019 13:37:50 GMT
I think it's been pretty much the case through my lifetime, although less so since the proliferation of electronic media. And the size and shape of the parish changes, too. in the fifties and sixties, for instance, events in the former Empire, and all that independence going on, meant that plenty of other anglophone countries got the attention that the USA does today, for instance.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 9, 2019 15:07:34 GMT
I'm not sure parochial is the right word, because the news seems to cover what goes on in London first, Washington second, and anyone who speaks a different language or looks a bit different can apparently bugger off unless they're dying in spectacular ways and numbers. And even then they have to be dying for something novel, rather than a dull old pre-existing conflict or something.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 17:11:55 GMT
There's been hardly anything in the US press about France and the yellow vest movement, which I find interesting, because there a lots of similar issues happening in America.
The US has always been pretty isolationist in its national news anyway, but you rarely get any real, in-depth international news. There is one CNN show dedicated to it, but it appears on the weekend.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 11, 2019 13:41:30 GMT
There's been practically nothing in the English-speaking press about the Yellow Vest protests in France. I've seen and heard plenty of coverage of them in the UK press. |
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Post by rayge on Jan 11, 2019 14:27:05 GMT
There's been practically nothing in the English-speaking press about the Yellow Vest protests in France. I've seen and heard plenty of coverage of them in the UK press. Yep, it really does depend on which papers or on-line news sources you read. Lots – well, more than you would normally get on domestic news of France, especially when there's a shit-ton of nonsense about the EU every fucking day – in the Guardian. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2019 14:49:01 GMT
The news has always been parochial. People want to hear new stuff about what's relevant to them, not something irrelevant to a load of strangers four villages away.
You go to Spain and there's more South American news to be heard than there is in the UK, France with French-speaking places .. mostly about what's relevant (government links, social and trade) but also I guess to do with the language of sources, despite having many foreign correspondents.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 19:10:27 GMT
CNN has a story on their site a few weeks back about immigrant nurses being told to leave Eire voluntarily or risked being forced. The narrative was (quite rightly) they helped and more than did their part in Irish hospitals during the covid and are not being told to sling their hook. Rather than what the story was about, i thought CNN reporting on Ireland, funny. There's bigger stories than that in Eire , but they picked that.
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