When we think about International News, the best example, in my opinion, is the news delivered by the UN. What could be more international than that? Yet when a story about an UN official is reported, is the degree of internationality still the same? Does such a thing as a degree of internationality exist? For example, on the French site of MSNnews there is a story about the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon calling Israel to end the Israeli constructions in the West Bank. If we take into account the amount of the text that addresses each country, there is, in my opinion, a significant imbalance between the section of the text that addresses the Western point of view, and the correspondingly smaller section that deals with the actual subject of the article: Israel construction sites in the West Bank. Out of 14 paragraphs, 4 were devoted to the UN point of view, 1 to the Israeli point of view, 1 to the Palestinian’s side, 2 were to Mr Sarkozy’s point of view, one of the paragraph was linked to the visit of the Israeli President Shimon Peres this week, 1 to France (which makes 3 in total), 1 to the UK’s side, 3 to the US’s point of view. The last paragraph dealt with a summary of the situation about the negotiation between Israel and the Palestinian territories, which according to the “Road Map” could be, in a not-so-distant future, a sovereign country.
It is interesting to note that the two main countries that are directly concerned with the topic are so under-represented.
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MSN News
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