But this judgement about the News-Services in Germany or the EU in relation to the events taking place in the USA is only half true; because the News also provide a lot of information about current events in the USA like what the President of the USA does, what political tensions on certain matters exist, what economy does, what other natural hazards take place, what crazy or impressive sport-events happen etc. The interesting thing, though, is that the emotional impact is much bigger and harder to digest, when the News give a report about one/ few madmen shooting in a frenzy and killing many people without any cause; and here, actually, it does not even matter if any News Service does so in an opinionated way. And such News shape the opinion about the USA much stronger then any other News - which is, actually, weird. Theory: And I think this happens because the foreign audience automatically compares their tradition and situation with what - according to the News - seems to be the case in the USA; and since such violent acts have a much more personal feel to them, I think, the members of the audience feel much more touched to it - like based on a certain 'social empathy' or something ... (I hope this makes some sense, what I write here ...)
Having said all this: This does not only apply to the situation between foreign News Services and events in the USA; this seems to be true for national News and the current events within the same nation.
Therefore the question would be: Is anything wrong with the way News-Services filter news and choose the method of displaying news?
All the best!
Liam
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