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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 februar 2012 / Time Line February 3, 2012
Version 3.52. Februar 2012, 4. Februar 2012
02/03/2012
Measuring Peace in the Media 2011. Institute for Economics & Peace and Media Tenor, 2012 - 42 s.
- http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/
'Measuring Peace in the Media covers over 160,000 news items from 31 news and current affairs programs that air on four continents. Each of the news networks covered on average 70 countries. The TV program with the broadest coverage was the BBC World Service which covered 119 countries.'
Key findings:
• The only two networks which were either 50% accurate or more were SABC News @ One and ABC World News with 56% and 50% accuracy, respectively.
• War, conflict and violence are the most widely covered events.
• The number violence reports aligned in direct proportion to the actual level of violence on the country being reported.
• The Arab Spring countries saw a rise in the number of reports, especially on topics such as ‘the functioning of government’ as well as war and violence.
• Based on the Structures of Peace taxonomy, critical topics such as the ‘Distribution of Resources’ received almost no coverage.
• On average, the number of negative reports far exceeds news reports which are positive in tone.
• Countries which have most declined in peacefulness received approximately thirteen times the level of coverage than countries which have most improved in peacefulness.
• Consistent with the data and observations, relatively peaceful countries tend to receive the majority of their international coverage due to exceptional violence or disaster related news stories.
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