It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.
“In the end, this dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases – a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with »controlled media« in authoritarian states.”
Yes but it’s more than that, western governments and intelligence agencies will deliberately plant fake stories and dictate the slant and even the wording of global news coverage through these mechanisms. And that’s just the traditional media. This article doesn’t go into this topic but the influence and control they have over sites like wikipedia which countless people think of as a reliable source of information is even greater.
nice article.
“In the end, this dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases – a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with »controlled media« in authoritarian states.”
this probably sums up the article.
Yes but it’s more than that, western governments and intelligence agencies will deliberately plant fake stories and dictate the slant and even the wording of global news coverage through these mechanisms. And that’s just the traditional media. This article doesn’t go into this topic but the influence and control they have over sites like wikipedia which countless people think of as a reliable source of information is even greater.