Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Why We Know Less Than Ever About the World

Stephen Downes

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How does the news shape how we see the world? Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, shows a fascinating map of the American view of the world depicted through the amount of news coverage by American media by country. The death of Anna Nicole Smith received more coverage than all the stories on any country in the world with the exception of Iraq. This TED talk is an eye opener. -GW

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