Conference tallis::celt

>The goal is to obtain not just a contrast of how U.S.News media covered 
>these events, but also to contrast coverage from different 
>perspectives (non-U.S. news media), as well as bring another level which 
>would be right and left wing perspectives.

	You may be supprised to find something else.

	- An excellent example of good old British CENSORSHIP !

		  (or Media-Gagging)

    Perhaps you are right..but will it be in a form that can be recognized?
    
    The image of the U.S. press here is that it is uncensored unless in
    wartime....that is, no formal censorship....however, that is not to
    say that what gets published by news organizations is the "truth."
    
    A quick analysis of the "sources" from which reporters/journalists
    obtain their information can often reveal whose version of reality is
    published.. So, generally speaking, reading the news is a lot of work
    just to sort out and understand the hidden meanings and nuances
    contained in a news report.  I may be surprised with the results I come
    up with after an analysis of various accounts of the topic areas I
    mentioned...but then again, I may not be...Joan

    
      Some years ago I took a course titled "International News
    Interpretation".  It was quite the eye-opener.  We compared and
    contrasted news coverage of numerous events as reported by European,
    Asian, and American sources.  Among the issues studied were the 
    downing of the Korean airliner by the Russians and the US bombing
    of Libya which took place during the time when the course was
    being given.
    
      It was fascinating to observe the biased nature of the reports.
    Coverage of the both events in American newspapers was marked by 
    almost rabid diatribe, denouncing the Russians and expressing glib
    satisfaction over the Libyan bombing.  The problem, of course, was
    that reasoned coverage of the *facts* of both events was blatantly
    absent in US papers while European and Asian publications were far
    more restrained and rational.  
    
      The major discrepancy in the American news involved the OMISSION of 
    various facts surrounding each event, such as the deviation of the
    course of the Korean airliner and the coverage of civilian casualties
    in Libya, which WERE reported in the foreign journals.  
    
      In other words, read the news with a jaundiced eye, be discriminate,
    and reserve final judgement based solely on the news coverage of 
    biased publications.
    
    Frank
     

    ref .3
    
    Basically this is the same type of course...analyzing the coverage of
    the Invasion of Grenada by various news organizations, and then doing
    the same thing with the Falkland Islands/Malvinas war coverage.
    
    Since I have to write a 20 page graduate-level research paper, it is
    expected that I provide some insight into the various reasons for these
    differences in coverage..by U.S., European, and Asian press..and assign
    some responsibility for the variances...be they cultural, governmental 
    restrictions, or even the infrastructure of the news industry...
    
    Any views of readers of this notesfile are welcome as to what you
    attribute the wide disparities in coverage....Joan

    
    There's an interesting Celtic aspect to the Malvinas/Falklands war that you
    might come across in your studies.
    
    Argentina has a large Welsh community in Patagonia, where the Welsh
    language was (and still is) preserved.  During the Falklands war, 
    the Argentinian forces contained conscripts from this community and the
    British forces also contained its Welsh contingent.  There were some
    news reports of Welsh-speaking members of both sides talking together
    after the conflict.

    Regards
    
    Colin.

    Colin, I haven't seen any mention of this in any of the materials I
    have reviewed so far...(in fact, I haven't any good source of materials
    yet from the Argentinian perspective).
    
    Could you, or other readers, point me to where I might find what you
    are referring to in your note (conscripts).  Joan 

    
    Joan,
    
    Communications from the old country reveal that the story was
    reported in the South Wales Echo, Cardiff published by the Thomson
    Press.
    
    Regards,
    
    Colin