Médecins Sans Frontières Issues "Top 10" List of underreported items
"According to the Tyndall Report, which monitors television network news, the major networks' nightly news programs devoted more airtime from January to November 2002 to the tribulations and jubilees of the British royal family (26 minutes) than to eight of the crises highlighted on MSF's "Top 10" list combined (25 minutes)."

The mass/corporate media is a massive problem which progressives must challenge and overcome in order to achieve any real change. At the very least the following must be encouraged: no foreign ownership; greater diversity of local ownership; strengthened public broadcasting; richer and deeper alternative media of every description.

In a half hour TV news bulletin the following are not news, and should not appear in the news bulletin: royal family, sex, celebrity, advertising, fashion, sport, weather, stock markets, lottery results, ('make money fast'), finance report, entertainment, lifestyle, comedy. In place of this nonsense the following might be stated as the policy of a genuine "news" report: Report on violence, death and injustice and significant political and social events, with a due weighting to seriousness of incident and local instances but without discrimination against races or the majority world; and to Monitor the sources of power, which must be seen as the primary causes of injustice: again with a due weighting and without discrimination. Some might regard it as a difficult challenge to have a whole half hour of such news without a break and hold the attention of the audience but it is precisely the challenge that must be taken up. SBS has shown the way with their half hour news bulletin followed directly by a half hour sports bulletin. The 'sports' bulletin could be altered to include the 'infotainment' material rejected by 'real' news, ie sport, royalty, weather, lottery, finance, celebrity etc.

Médecins Sans Frontières Issues "Top 10" List of underreported items
"According to the Tyndall Report, which monitors television network news, the major networks' nightly news programs devoted more airtime from January to November 2002 to the tribulations and jubilees of the British royal family (26 minutes) than to eight of the crises highlighted on MSF's "Top 10" list combined (25 minutes)."

The mass/corporate media is a massive problem which progressives must challenge and overcome in order to achieve any real change. At the very least the following must be encouraged: no foreign ownership; greater diversity of local ownership; strengthened public broadcasting; richer and deeper alternative media of every description.

In a half hour TV news bulletin the following are not news, and should not appear in the news bulletin: royal family, sex, celebrity, advertising, fashion, sport, weather, stock markets, lottery results, ('make money fast'), finance report, entertainment, lifestyle, comedy. In place of this nonsense the following might be stated as the policy of a genuine "news" report: Report on violence, death and injustice and significant political and social events, with a due weighting to seriousness of incident and local instances but without discrimination against races or the majority world; and to Monitor the sources of power, which must be seen as the primary causes of injustice: again with a due weighting and without discrimination. Some might regard it as a difficult challenge to have a whole half hour of such news without a break and hold the attention of the audience but it is precisely the challenge that must be taken up. SBS has shown the way with their half hour news bulletin followed directly by a half hour sports bulletin. The 'sports' bulletin could be altered to include the 'infotainment' material rejected by 'real' news, ie sport, royalty, weather, lottery, finance, celebrity etc.