How is American media coverage different than European media

Newspapers, television, and other mass media inevitably reflect the political

traditions of their countries. In this article communication scholar Daniel

Hallin explores how European newspapers and television explicitly support a

diversity of political (ideological) viewpoints in their countries, while the U.S.

media typically seek to be more objective in the reporting of news.

Explanation:

I n 1976 a new newspaper, La Repubblica, debuted in Italy. It was an innovative paper in many ways, more market-driven than the traditional Italian

press, which spoke, as a top political reporter once expressed it, to 1,500

readers, the movers and shakers of Italian politics. It was more newsy, with

an agenda that expanded beyond the traditional narrow focus of the Italian press

on party politics, and more accessible, modifying the cryptic insider language that

traditionally dominated the Italian press, and, for example, introducing letters to the

editor and seeking women readers. It soon became the top-selling Italian paper.

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