Americans have limited view of world news.
Alisa Miller, President and CEO of Public Radio International spoke about the lack of international news coverage available to Americans.
Using many statistics and graphs to prove her point, Alisa showed that the US accounted for 79% of the total news stories. She also showed that local news stations dedicate only 12% of their news coverage to international news.
"I know we can do better and can't afford not to." said Miller
Alisa showed that while the availability of international news is being very limited. The amount of Americans who say they follow international news has grown in the past 20 years from 37% to 52%.
She talks of why Americans are subject to seeing only national news instead of international news saying, it is quite simply cheaper for the local news to cover stories in the US only.
"Covering Brittney is cheaper." says Miller
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