[Air-l] Forward: US public turns to Europe for news

[Aldon Hynes]

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

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> US public turns to Europe for news
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> 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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