Global Media and the Development Story: An Introduction
Posted by M Bayeh at 18 May 2007, 11:19 AM and is filed under Agriculture and Rural Development,media 
Please read these commentaries on media and development and share your reactions on this blog. Does the media do a good job when it comes to covering issues of hunger and poverty? Where do they go wrong and what do they miss? What are the challenges faced by journalists from industrialized and developing countries? How well does the media cover these issues in your country? We would like to hear from reporters, scientists, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in development.
Michael Rubinstein
Head of Media Relations, IFPRI
Full Article on the IFPRI Website
Audio commentary by G. Pascal Zachary, 1 min 4 sec. (MP3 1.5M)
Michael Rubinstein
Head of Media Relations, IFPRI
Full Article on the IFPRI Website
Audio commentary by G. Pascal Zachary, 1 min 4 sec. (MP3 1.5M)
Coverage of local poor is better than International. The BBC is really the only international source of news and that is a monopolized source. Internet news can be done well but because of the large mass of space it can be considered less reliable and harder to find. Feel good articles do not cover world hunger. The human heart can't care about everything. Articles about hunger have to be viewed as all persons playing a part. For instance, a famine in an African nation who is heavily in dept. The pictures of the starving children must be put next to an article that includes the countries exports of grain which usually are enough to feed the country and reasons why it is leaving, then what are some practices in place as well as the positives and negatives. People have become numb and so the work of international media becomes more in depth to make any sense of change. And to make change possible. Covering hunger isn't about revealing the hunger but describing our relationship in causing the hunger and how we can change that. Describing the relationship can also mean a history of the area which some do include and the interactions presently. International media has an opportunity to make clear but as of yet the coverage is limited and confusing without explanation.
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