A window on the world?: Foreign coverage by a British radio current affairs program

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News analysis material on a radio foreign affairs program for the period 1975–1979 is reported, and findings are compared with propositions generated by gatekeeper studies of international news‐flow. The program concentrated on political, diplomatic and military questions, paying less attention to finance, industry and social affairs, and still less to crime and human interest. The relationship between negativity and poverty, power‐lessness and sociocultural distance was not as marked as in some earlier studies. Third World coverage was generally more negative, reflecting both “reality” and failure to pursue more positive stories. Results did not sustain the argument that news offers an unchanging, unchangeable “world at one with itself.”

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