Global Media Wars
In March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. is on the losing side of a global information war, pointing out the successes of state funded international news networks like Al Jazeera. A group of Columbia University students monitored five English language news networks aimed at an international audience in a project called Global Media Wars. Nathanael Massey worked on the project and he says it’s not that the U.S. is losing the information war, it’s just no longer in the lead.
The entire episode is worth a listen, for various media-related perspectives on Bin Laden’s killing.