Friday, September 7, 2007

What's important to the world?

With the masses of media in the world today it is hard to ignore what is considered important to the world.

The "Daily News" for Los Angalos, California frontpage, covers all ranges of topics from the Box-office to testing chidren's IQs to monkeys. The Daily News discusses enviornmental factors, area code additions for the rising population of Los Angelos, disputs between multimillionares and recent sport news. From the multiple headlines of the "Daily News" it is noticeable that they are trying to supply to a varity of viewers. The viewers of this newspaper care about what is going on in their area and topics that affect them and their daily lives.

Traveling across the United States to the east coast of Washington D.C. the Stars and Stripes newspaper focuses its importance on the War in Iraq. Its largest headline concerns the trial of Senior Marine officers while the other smaller headlines concern the new iphone and Nascar. It is obvious that the War is important to the Stars and Strips newpapers and probably has a large veiwing audience of patriotic citizens. Since Washington D.C. is a city of large importance and represence the United States it is not surprising that such a patriotic paper exists in this area.

The "Daily Herold's" (Chicago) headlines consist of saving historical landmarks, College and Elementry education, taxes and Honeybee populations. These topics being the important topics of this newpaper means the veiwing audience is made of a variety of citizens. The Daily Herold consist of topics that effect the lives of everyday citizens. This newspaper keeps viewers informed and up to date.

Over in Europe in London, UK the newspaper "The Guardian" discusses enviornmental topics, Big Lucianos battle with cancer, Sports and National and International news. The main article of "The Guardian" newspaper was about enviormentalist groups moving out of the way so new nuclear plants may be built. From this newspaper it seems that London is concerned about their enviorment and want to use their limited avaliability of land productively and efficently. Viewers of this paper are concerned with topics that affect the country but not topics that affect them directly.

"The Press" located in New Zealand covers topics such as Big Lucianos battle with cancer just like "The Guardian" in London, $200 million vaccine schemes, and a Detective demanding tracking devices back. It seems that this paper's main headlines cover topics that occur outside of New Zealand and around the world. New Zealand is a small country but they do not isolate themselves from the world around them. This paper carries a variety of topics to keep their veiwers interrested.

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