News coverage of Ukraine deaths vs. Central African Republic deaths

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. More complex than that.

For example. US readers usually do not care of much more than the local news, you are lucky if state and national enters the picture. And forever home stories trump city council.

Americans are very provincial.

And news organizations stopped investing in foreign bureaus. These days if you've noticed, news organizations are feeding info to each other and sharing correspondents. Hell, msnbc has one dedicated foreign correspondent, so they direct resources where threats to peace (worldwide) are perceived to be the worst.

In the 1970s I read the NYT when I could, since back then they covered Mexico better than Mexican media. The NYT does not have a bureau in Mexico City any longer.

I hope that helps explains some of it. And some is the decision from media of what matters, but that happens in every news organization, why I have a blog. I pitch policy stories often, and often they are shot down for fluff.