Media News - Thursday, October 28, 2010
US networks top new study of news coverage of violence
The preliminary findings of a new global study of international television networks suggest that US stations broadcast more violence than their European and Middle Eastern counterparts. The Measuring Peace in the Media study, carried out for the first time by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and Media Tenor, analysed the coverage of 37 TV news and current affairs programmes from 23 networks in 15 countries and then compared it against IEP's annual Global Peace Index (GPI) which measures the levels of peace and violence in 149 countries. According to the study the four programmes which devoted more than 50 per cent of their coverage to violence were CBS Evening News, Fox Special Report and ABC World News from the US and ITV News at 10 from the UK. Overall the report claims that BBC Newsnight and ZDF Heute Journal were the two programmes with coverage which most closely aligned to the rankings of the GPI while BBC World was highlighted as the "widest ranging international news source" covering 67 countries in the study's findings. In a case study on the news coverage of Afghanistan the report warns that the over-reporting of violence is "impeding peace" in the country. According to the study, CNN International, BBC World and Al Jazeera English all carried a similar number of reports on the topics that received the most total coverage: warfare, elections, crime and international politics. But Al Jazeera News was found to have broadcast three times as many positive stories as BBC World and more than eight times as many positive stories as CNN International Desk. (Journalism.co.uk)
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