I think there might be a big leap in causality here. How much of the increase in Americans visiting international news websites is because of the increased ease of finding articles on them through the improvement in news aggregator technology? I know that with the launch of news.google.com, I often look at news stories from England, Australia and Germany, not because I am seeking a different perspective, but because they are showing up in the news aggregation programs. MHO, YMMV, Aldon --- meiwu@umac.mo wrote:
owner-eccr@listser Subject: [eccr] US public turns to Europe for news
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US public turns to Europe for news ---------------------------------- The threat of war in Iraq is driving increasing numbers of Americans to international news websites in search of the broader picture. According to the internet audience management and analysis company Nielsen NetRatings, traffic to the UK's biggest news sites, BBC News Online and Guardian Unlimited, has increased dramatically over the past year. Many of these new users are from the US. Jon Dennis, deputy news editor of the Guardian Unlimited web site said: "We have noticed an upsurge in traffic from America, primarily because we are receiving more e-mails from US visitors thanking us for reporting on worldwide news in a way that is unavailable in the US media." The American public is apparently turning away from the mostly US-centric American media in search of unbiased reporting and other points of views. According to the statistics, much of the US media's reaction to France and Germany's intransigence on the Iraqi war issue has verged on the xenophobic, even in the so-called 'respectable' press. Mr Dennis said: "American visitors are telling us they are unable to find the breadth of opinion we have on our website anywhere else because we report across the political spectrum rather than from just one perspective.
Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story576.html - Journalism.co.uk
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