Will British media replace the US "lapdog" media by telling the TRUTH?

[europegirl4jfk]

Very interesting story on Yahoo about the British media (BBC, The Guardian, the Economist, The Times of London) making plans to expand their distribution to the USA.



British media seek new readers on US shores

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To be sure, the United States has no shortage of international media. Wire services like Reuters and Agence France-Presse publish articles that run online, in U.S. newspapers and are picked up by TV news channels.But the strategy now is to offer international news to U.S. audiences that they say home-grown media outlets are underplaying or not covering.

They also want to capture advertising dollars aimed at affluent, educated young U.S. professionals with a cosmopolitan take on the world.

"I think there has been a bit of a retreat (in the United States) from covering serious global news," said Jeremy Hillman, editor of BBC World in London and former New York bureau chief.

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The Times made its leap after seeing strong demand from U.S. Internet audiences. Its Web site gets more than 3 million unique visits a month from U.S. Internet users, about the same as it gets from Britain, Thomson said.

more here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060627/media_nm/media_usa_britain_dc

[jeff30997]

1. Great idea!

[Kenergy]

2. Yes

Any outlet that reports the news in an unbiased manner would be welcome.
American MSM isn't doing the job.

[Hamlette]

3. a story about BBC TV

we took our son to Europe when he graduated high school. We could not get my son, who had probably never watched a TV news program, away from BBC news. The hoof and mouth story was huge during that time, just starting really. It was a story that would probably not impact his life but it was presented in a way that interested us all but especially him. He had his own room, when he'd leave our room for the evening, we'd read or watch something else or go to bed. Not him. Next day? He couldn't stop talking about THE NEWS! Not at all what I expected from my 17 year old who was a typical self centered, surly teenager at the time. I swear, he became an expert on hoof and mouth.

I've always had a soft spot for BBC but more so after that. My family lived in Europe for years and were always so much better informed than I was. I went to visit my sister who was living in the dorms in Denmark during Watergate/Vietnam. The college students knew as much about it as I did and I was/am a total news junkie. They could name everyone in Nixon's cabinet and knew every detail of the Watergate scandal.

Please make it so. I'd love for the BBC to take over here.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Already has in my book. I read on-line copies of Brit papers, not USA.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. Good idea

There's a big underserved market for actual news in this country.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. anything they say will be ignored, just as ALL negative stories told

by media outlets here

lookit the DSM

our "journalists" typically ignore important stories, or run them once or twice, then....down the memory hole, only to be dismissed as "old news" if they're brought up in new context, or to highlight more recent depredations

how many times has this been repeated?

why will anybody pay closer attention to what the Brit media have to say?

I'm SO sanguine

think I'm getting a tumor

[Sinti]

7. Great idea. There are actually people who want to know

the truth, but no one is selling it. My 21-year-old, non-political (except Colbert and the Daily) caught Fox News accidentally one afternoon and was outraged. He could not believe the public display of obscenity. The presstitute was shamelessly fellating (sic) * and his mis-administration and pretending to be a journalist. I think a lot of people see this stuff and just turn off, it gets their "oh dear god" reflex.

Speaking of BBC, has any one caught this Century of the Self program? Interesting stuff. I'd really recommend it to nearly anyone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml