A study on the reporting of last years conflict between Israel and Hizbollah have found that victims were traeted merely as statistics and in a very impersonal manner
(via Newswatch India)
The study by International Centre for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland looked at 14 major English-language newspapers from around the world. It tracked their overall coverage, changes in coverage over time, and ranked them according to authority, depth, source balance, frame balance and empathy.
The study found that
Both Israeli and Lebanese civilian casualties were presented in a very or somewhat impersonal manner, the ICMPA study found. Barely 11 per cent of articles covering Lebanese victims and 8 per cent of those covering Israeli victims were somewhat or very personal.
I read this article and thought about the Uk coverage of the floods in South East Asia.Conditions far worse than those experienced in the Uk have hit the region and yet it is only recently that the media have covered it.It of course had the misfortune of coinciding with our own water problems but with reporting deaths at over 300 and an estimated 20 milion people affected,it is only recently that a least the print media have started to take an interest.
I havent really watched any Tv bulletins over the last few days but thanks to Andrew Grant Adamson for this observation
I had decided I wanted to question the BBC’s judgment on the 10 o’clock TV news last night. The floods in Nepal, Bangladesh and India which have left a million people homeless and at least 120 dead in Bangladesh and 55 in India got 16 seconds. The follow-up on the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis which had killed fewer people than reported the previous night was given 3 minutes 18 seconds immediately following the flood story.
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