EATING THE MEDIA LUNCH

USA, 2016• Hilary Clinton won the

popular vote• Trump became president

through the Electoral Collage vote

• The States that spoke out were from the Rust Belt

• While 200,000 million people were registered to vote, only 130,000 million approx. voted

• Trump invested less money into his campaign than his rival

• Trump had one key slogan; Clinton had 85 before settling on ‘Stronger Together

NEW ZEALAND, 2015, BOSNIA 1995

• New Zealand is thought to habour war criminals from the Sebrencia Genocide

• 8,000 people were killed in one day (mainly men and boys); another 25,000 people were forced to leave their homes

• UN described it as the worse crime on European soil since WW2

• Over 300 people thought guilty are on the run internationally

DHAKA FIRE, 2012

• Occurred in 2012 at the Tazreen Fashion Factory in India• At least 117 died,

200 were injured• Caused by an

electrical fault• Factory was tagged

by World Health standards as unsafe and was seen by Walmart as unsafe for workers• Supplied clothing for

big companies like IKEA, the US Army and Walmart

MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH, 2009

• Died in 2009 from a cocktail of drugs (painkillers and sleeping medication)

• Report came first through Web 2.0• Died just before ‘The last Curtain

Call’ – a series of concerts in London• Left three children which saw a

custody battle played out in the media between his mother, father and the children’s nanny

• Michael saved a dying music industry in the 1980s with Thriller and his death revived the industry from a second death – within hours of his death online music stores had sold out and footage of his concert is to be released in Theatres in October

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

• 4 planes hijacked, by Al Qaeda, and crashed into American government and commercial buildings

• 3030 people killed and 2337 injured

• Led to the invasion of Afghanistan and the War on Terror

• 3,800 Afghan civilians estimated to have been killed in first three months of military campaign.

• More than 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq since invasion

DAFUR, SUDAN 2004-05

• Janjaweed militia, believed to be supported by the government, have killed men, raped women and destroyed villages between 2004-5

• Up to two million Internally Displaced Persons are living in temporary camps, and half a million refugees are in neighbouring countries.

• Representatives of 60 countries met in April 2005 to discuss the situation.

RWANDA 1994

• 800,000 killed in a civil war in this East African country in1994

• The majority Hutu tribe attempted the genocide of the minority Tutsi tribe.

• The Rwandan government appealed for UN troops but UN refused to send.

• President Clinton, in 1998, admitted the world “did not do as much as we could have and should have done”

HIV AND AIDS IN AFRICA

• 29.4 million people have HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2/3 of cases reported globally

• In Zimbabwe and Botswana, 25% of adults carry the virus.

• There are 12 million AIDS orphans in Africa

• In 2003, more than 6,000 15-24 year olds became infected with HIV every day

• Most of the 1-3 million who die each year from malaria are children, with 3000 children dying in Sub-Saharan Africa every day

SLUMS• In 1950, 18% of people in

developing countries lived in cities. This rose to 40% in 2000.

• A billion people (1/5 of the world’s population) live in slums - lacking access to improved water, sanitation, secure tenure, durability of housing and/or sufficient living area

• In most sub-Saharan African countries, more than 80 per cent of the urban population live in slums.

• Between 1.5 and 2 million children die each year from water and sanitation-related diseases

CHILD LABOUR

• 250 million children aged 5 -14 work either full time or part time.

• 120 million, work full time, every day, all year round.

• 61% live in Asia; 32% in Africa and 7% in Latin America.

• 70% work in dangerous environments.

• 1.8 million work in prostitution and pornography

• 300,000 are involved in armed conflict

SO …

• What were the stories that you knew the most about?• Why do you think some stories have a more prominent place

than others?• What do you think play a part in news production?• Why don’t we hear the stories that aren’t ‘one-offs’?

WHAT IMPACTS THE NEWS WE HEAR?

• Ownership• Advertising• The politics of news sources• Infotainment• Globalisaton• Bias and ideology

WHAT DO YOU THINK?• What about in Aotearoa NZ?• What do you think really influences our news here?• Take the hand test ...