Who should control international news?

Is there too much international news to consume?

Well,Charlie Beckett reports from the BBC festival of international news,where he says

it took veteran BBC hack Frank Gardner to suggest that perhaps there is a limit to the number of people who want to devour detailed reports and analysis from far flung corners of the globe.

The truth he adds

is that we have more international news than ever before. Thanks to new media we can also make it and access it by ourselves.

But surrounded by old media executives he felt that there was a reluctance to accept that foriegn news could be entrusted to the new media arguing that

the evidence from Iran at the moment is that freedom of expression is, indeed, a fragile bloom. But the greatest protection for global connectivity and trans-national communication is to enpower the people to participate.