CALIFORNIA PUBLIC TELEVISION AND SINGAPORE TELEVISION AIR: Focus Asia Business Leaders.
A 10 part video series produced by Jim Laurie: Focus Asia: Business Leaders, has had its first run on KCSM TV, Public Television, in San Mateo, California. Part of the series was also seen in Singapore on local Channel News Asia in January 2007. Focus Asia Business Leaders profiles Asian executives and examines their contribution to the dynamics of management in the region. In March 2007, the series is expected to be offered to up to 300 television stations in the United States through the American Public Television service. See also www.focusasiatv.org/leaders.php The series is produced as a joint venture with the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre and the University of Hong Kong School of Business Asian Case Studies Research Centre. It is packaged as an educational tool by the ACRC and is available to University libraries and Masters of Business Administration programs..
MEDIA WATCH U-S-A.
|
International News Commitment among American News organizations continues to decline. The coverage of recent stories like the ongoing war in Iraq leaves the impression that the traditional American networks ABC, NBC, CBS are dedicated to covering the world. In fact, the US networks have steadily reduced their international presence in the last ten years. Among American news channels, only CNN maintains a considerable international staff. FOX News pays only lip service to "foreign news." Apart from London, Baghdad, and Jerusalem, it has little presence outside the United States. None of News Corporation's affiliated television platforms offer content for international viewers or provide much international news for domestic viewers. Among the old networks, major news bureaus in Moscow, Rome, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Berlin were closed long ago. As one news executive in New York put it: "We have reporters in New York, we have airplanes. We can cover any story anywhere within 24 hours by flying out of New York." On June 15, 2006 at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Hong Kong, Horace Newcomb, Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards addressed members and guests on this subject. In his talk: "America's Declining International Vision" Newcomb spoke of the contradiction between the proliferation in the United States of cable and satellite channels, creating the "500 Channel Universe" and the limited exposure through such television that America gets to a wide range of international issues. He also noted that new international news channels like Al Jazeera English have failed to find any major American cable or satellite operators willing to send AJE broadcasts into American homes. See also SAGE Journals on line, the International Journal of Cultural Studies 2001. "Television and cultural studies: Unfinished business," http://ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/4/371 A further commentary on the decline of American television news reporting of international affairs is contained below in a 1999 article by Pulitzer Prize Winning journalist and author David Halberstam. |
David Halberstam commentary
November 7, 1999