Both traditonal and new media still frames our views of the world.

A fascinating study into how the media frames our view of the world over at Paul Bradshaw's blog.
Nicolas Kayser-Bril has created a series of diagrams of the world which show how a number of news organisations focus on different parts of the world.

Nicolas makes a number of observations,firstly that traditional newspapers have a very insular view of the world,favouring the more developed countries that are closer to home.Secondly the web based media has much the same views and it is only the blogosphere that covers a widerrange of topics and countries.