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International news and the American attention span

I reported this story on the struggle to cover international news in the late 1990s for Freedom Speaks, a TV program on the media run by the Freedom Forum, and I thought with a ground war now raging in Europe and threatening to destabilize the “world order”, it’s worth a revisit. But remember — this is archival. Even so, does it have anything to teach us about the way Americans view the wider world?

Click here: to listen (3 minutes).

Posted on January 7, 2023 in a new podcast, Front Page, History, Ideas, Politics, Public Media
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