2 Global News Flow
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.
Global news flow is all about journalists and their ability to find out what is happening in countries that aren’t their own. Like all journalism it has a fondness for anniversaries, for summaries, for analysis, for looking for the simple, single story amidst the confusion of the war or disaster or political insurrection. Before there can be proper global news flow there must be an idea of what is news, what is happening.
All proper journalists are supposed to have it: few can identify or define it. Journalists speak of ‘the news’ as if events select themselves. ...
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