The Biggest Losers
The other day a prominent international NGO released its Top 10 most underreported humanitarian stories of 2005.
According to Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the online media-tracking
journal The Tyndall Report, the 10 stories highlighted by MSF accounted
for just 8 minutes of the 14,529 minutes on the three major U.S.
television networks’ nightly newscasts for 2005. Natural disasters like
the south Asia tsunami and the war in Iraq dominated international
reporting. But in a year that Tyndall said had an unusually high amount
of international coverage, only 6 minutes were devoted to DR Congo and
2 minutes to Chechnya. The remaining stories highlighted by MSF were not covered at all. The AIDS crisis received 14 minutes of coverage, none
of which, however, was devoted to the lack of R&D.
For a list of the winners, check here.
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