strategy
Improving media image of developing countries
Implementation:
The 1993 Annenberg Washington Program held two roundtables with producers, editors, reporters, and members of relief organizations to analyse the impact of images of the developing world portrayed through the media and by the relief organizations. The roundtables sought to identify specific and practical strategies for the media and relief organizations to upgrade the quality, timeliness, and accuracy of the information they disseminate about the developing world. Broader:
Improving Constrains:
Distorting media presentations Constrained by:
Censoring the mediaPoliticizing media eventsPromoting nationalistic mediaControlling communications mass media Facilitates:
Depoliticizing media events Facilitated by:
Criticizing the mediaDeveloping multi mediaPromoting press freedomDeepening media coverageGlobalizing media programmingSecuring access to media for third world productions Problems:
Biased media-image of foreign groups and peoplesDeterioration of media standards
Discriminatory framing by the media
Distorted media presentations
Elitist public information
Excessive commercialization of the media
Excessive state control of communications mass media
Irresponsible media practices
Media globalitis
Media imperialism
Negative media reporting
Parochial escapist media entertainment
Political interference with television news coverage in capitalist countries
Politicization of media events
Psychological pollution by mass media
Uncontrolled media
Subjects:
Communication → MediaPsychology → Imagery
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
