As promised here is the link to the transcript of the radio programme I was listening to in Australia about Africa and its image abroad as potrayed by the world's media. You'll need to scroll down to the first referece to Gwen Ansell and read from there. She says, "I think in some countries Africa is no longer a news priority, and in those same countries I think there is still a clinging to a rather old-fashioned set of news values, in which ‘if it bleeds, it leads’. And the only stories that get in are the big stories and the big stories are defined by being bad stories".
Posted by Joe at August 31, 2003 12:45 AM