I have surfed through a few channels, including BBC, France 24 (English), Press TV,Sky News Headlines and Russia Today. Generally, I think the content of the international news is very much the same, including the German election, the flood in the Philippines and the opening of the nuclear plants in Iran for inspections.
Of course, each channel puts more emphasis on its regional news, for instance BBC puts more focus on their Prime Minister, Golden Brown's latest activities while Russia Today includes a lot of news from former Soviet Union member countires, such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Interestingly, Sky News also features a smaller, local story of how an immigrant worker was being bullied by her boss.
There are two things that I find very interesting. One of them is that the news anchor of Press TV was wearing a hijab. That was quite an unexpected scene because I think we have a standard image of internationality in our mind and that all reporters or news anchors of international media networks are somehow very westernised. However, Press TV has made an exception.
Another thing that I noticed is from Russia Today. There was a report about the resources put on training national gymnasts by the Russia government. In the 15-minute report, there were a lot of compliments given to the government either through interpretation of data or the interview with the chief coach. She reinforced the idea that the government had put a lot of resources into training the future champions of the world etc. This got me a little bit suspicious and intrigued me to do some research on the TV channel. It was not surprising to discover that Russia Today is sponsored by the state-owned Russian news agency RIA-Novosti. Although admittedly, I cannot make a conclusion based on my 30-minute observation, it is legitimate to say that audience cannot help but be a bit doubtful about the perspective reported.
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