Global News Providers

Historical Views of Globalisation

• Though several scholars situate the origins of globalization in the modern era, others regard it as a phenomenon with a long history.

• Some authors have argued that stretching the beginning of globalization far back in time renders the concept wholly inoperative and useless for political analysis.

• Global news started in Victorian times.

Robertson 1994

• Globalization is both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.

– This means the world is getting closer together

– But we are also becoming far more aware of it

• What does this mean?

• What evidence from your news stories supports this theory?

So what has changed about the news stories?

Why have they become more global?Do they confirm Robertson’s theory?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRYhN1NCT4 Zepplin Crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8H4lHgnDog – Nazi war crimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P167ZB-Ccs – liberation of Kiev

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Comparison of Global News Providers

Lesson Question: What kinds of media are increasingly global in terms of

production and distribution?

Is Al Jazeera becoming increasingly global in it’s production and distribution?

• Yes• Launching specific channels in other

languages/cultures e.g. Al JazeeraEnglish

• Original channel available worldwide through various satellite networks

• Release of footage to Western Media broadcasters.

• Creative commons licence allows other broadcaster to use their footage.

• ‘Citizen journalist’s invited to ‘produce’ media – releasing ‘home made’ footage.

• Launched a website with open access.• Variety of media platforms offered• Six journalists arrested in Egypt –

global influence

• No• Receives much of it’s funding

from Qatar – accused of manipulating broadcasts for political interests.

• USA accused them of being “anti-American”

• They are distributing news predominantly from the Middle East

• Causing controversy – going against ‘Western’ rules of censorship or rights

• Censorship from other countries e.g. China, Egypt

News Corp

• How is News Corp becoming increasingly global in it’s production and distribution?

• What makes it different from the other two?

How would I begin to include this in a question?

• In 1994, Robertson said that due to the ‘compression’ of the world from globalization, our consciousness of the world around is intensified. By media standards this is a reasonably outdated prediction, but in many circumstances, he was correct. Thanks to the internet we can now quickly surf through the news of the globe on one website, allowing us to be more informed about the world as a whole. Even though there is still local news being broadcasted, many of us feel the need to know about topics on a much more global scale.

Redraft the paragraph with your evidence