International Perspectives on Local/Global Issues

In comparing the different sources of International News, it was hard to stick to one particular topic. But I was able to choose one genera and keep the headlines focused on that - the Middle East. There were various stories being portrayed but here a few i found interesting.

Australian Network - 

http://australianetwork.com - the story titled "Taliban in 'secret talks' with Karzai"

Qatar Network - http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101071254383435.html

Russian Network - 

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/29-09-2010/115132-america_afghanistan-0/

England Network - 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11482626

 

Vietnam Network -

 http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20100702170644.aspx

Although these five stories are tied in by the same factor of all being headlines containing some sort of information or story about the Middle East, i noticed each news station portrayed the headlines differently. BBC had a wide variety of news on its home page - it does not cover only news from England. They had the US, Canada, Latin America, the UK, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, South Asia, and of course Europe. As i searched the rest of the networks, i noticed the variety decreased. Quatar news had stories from Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Central and South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Yet when getting to the Russian network "Pravada", the main headline were Russia and the rest of the world bundled in one category. The Japanese website also mainly focused on strictly Japan with their "world" category still focusing on Asian countries such as Vietnam and China. The "Vietnam News" portrayed only news from Vietnam, but the other website "thanhniewnnews.com" had a few headlines on Obama and Australian stories, but none the less very few. 

From this i picked up that BBC would probably be the network with the most variety, and in some way knows how to get its viewers interested by portraying so many stories. The other networks do tend to primarily tell important news from their own countries - and "www.nht.org.jp" is even in Japanese!