Thursday, January 8, 2009

Do ABC and BBC Share a Similar Lens on Iraq?

This plan by ABC to get its Iraq coverage from BBC makes me wonder whether the two will have disagreements over what should be on the air. Granted, the news out of Iraq right now isn't of the shock and awe sort, and ABC has a relationship with BBC that goes back to 1994, according to the The Hollywood Reporter article. Yet, although academic studies have found US and UK media coverage of the war in Iraq to be more similar than dissimilar, BBC certainly has an edge that attracts American viewers looking for an alternative to US TV coverage. It'd be interesting to track what ABC uses from the BBC versus what BBC puts on the air in the UK. Too many projects; not enough time.

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