Globalization
Chapter 6 The World News Prism Causes of Globalization of News -innovations such as satellites, facsimile printing -growing elite cosmopolitan audiences -growth of media conglomerates -needs and economic opportunities of a shrinking world
Western Media Imperialism The idea or theory that the media outlets located in the Western Hemisphere are the dominant source of news and that other nations follow their lead in selection of news as well as style of news reporting.
International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune is the first newspaper in history to publish the same edition simultaneously on all continents. International Herald Tribune
Le Monde Le Monde Le Monde of Paris is the intellectually demanding leading European newspaper for the “international information elite” who regardless of geographic location, share a similar rich fund of common experience, ideas, ways of thinking, and approaches to dealing with international problems
Financial Times London Financial Times considered Europe’s business newspaper. Financial Times
Other Effects of Globalization -Diffusion of mass culture -English is the/is becoming the mass media language