Failures that begat a fiasco
Washington Times
by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke
06/20/04
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in a democracy. Some seven years ago, the veteran journalist Garrick Utley noted a counterintuitive paradox. As U.S. global power -- military and economic -- expanded in the 1990s, coverage of international affairs in the U.S. press diminished. A closer look revealed that except for the principal national newspapers, most major metropolitan papers had little or no staff reporting daily from abroad. News editors say they could not justify the cost of expensive overseas bureaus in view of their readers' limited interest in foreign affairs. As a result, readers were offered fewer foreign stories and
had less context for understanding overseas events...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040619-104225-1057r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke
06/20/04
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in a democracy. Some seven years ago, the veteran journalist Garrick Utley noted a counterintuitive paradox. As U.S. global power -- military and economic -- expanded in the 1990s, coverage of international affairs in the U.S. press diminished. A closer look revealed that except for the principal national newspapers, most major metropolitan papers had little or no staff reporting daily from abroad. News editors say they could not justify the cost of expensive overseas bureaus in view of their readers' limited interest in foreign affairs. As a result, readers were offered fewer foreign stories and
had less context for understanding overseas events...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040619-104225-1057r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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