OXFORD, Miss. – Whether it’s the evening news on ABC, CBS or NBC, or
\nthe steady stream of talking heads on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC, voters
\nseem to have grown used to – and in some cases, tired of – incessant
\nmedia coverage of every minute detail of the presidential campaign.
\n
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\nBut what are reporters in Australia and the Netherlands saying about
\nthe election? Or those in India and Japan? Given their cultures,
\neducation and interests, how are media agencies around the world
\ncovering the election of America’s 44th president?\n<\/p>\n
\nThese questions and more will be addressed Sept. 23 at the University
\nof Mississippi when a panel of international journalists share insights
\non how they cover the U.S. election – and how their audiences view it.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe panel presentation on “Views of the U.S. Presidential Election from
\nAbroad” begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium. Sponsored
\nby the Croft Institute for International Studies, it is free and open
\nto the public.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe event is among dozens of debate-themed academic programs hosted by
\nthe university in anticipation of the first 2008 presidential debate,
\nscheduled Sept. 26 at UM’s Ford Center.\n<\/p>\n
\n“This brings something new to the university and to Mississippi, to
\nhear how we are perceived beyond our borders,” said Kees Gispen, Croft
\ndirector. “It is part of the Croft Institute’s mission and I think it
\nwill appeal to our larger audience here.”\n<\/p>\n
\nThe panel will include:\n<\/p>\n
\n– Anirudh Bhattacharyya (India). Based in New York City, Bhattacharyya \n– Geoffrey Elliott (Australia). Elliott, a 19-year veteran journalist, \n– Derk Jan Eppink (Netherlands). Eppink has worked as a political \n– Yoichi Kato (Japan). Kato is bureau chief of the American General \nThe discussion is to be moderated by UM’s Cook Chair of Journalism \n“Americans don’t take as much interest in international affairs as we \nIn late August, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that \n“It makes our panel more timely for this debate,” Gispen said. “It \nInternational journalists are often multilingual and have been exposed \n“The kind of people the Croft Institute is bringing, they tend to be \nFor more information or to request assistance related to a disability, OXFORD, Miss. – Whether it’s the evening news on ABC, CBS or NBC, or the steady stream of talking heads on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC, voters seem to have grown used to – and in some cases, tired of – incessant media coverage of every minute detail of the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\ncovers U.S. politics for CNN-IBN, Network 18 of India and the online
\nnews site IBNLive.com. His blog can be found at http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/blogs\/
\nhas worked in the Washington, D.C., bureau of The Australian since 2005
\nand maintains a blog about the U.S. presidential election at http:\/\/blogs.theaustralian.
\nanalyst for Actua-TV, based in Belgium. He writes for the weekly Dutch
\nmagazine Opinio, as well as the Flemish magazine Trends. He is the
\nauthor of “Life of a European Mandarin,” released in 2007.\n<\/p>\n
\nBureau of the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major daily newspapers.
\nBased in Washington, D.C., Kato was the national security correspondent
\nin Asahi’s Tokyo head office and reported extensively on security
\nissues in the Asia Pacific region.\n<\/p>\n
\nCurtis Wilkie, a veteran foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe.
\nWilkie said U.S. politics could benefit from a more worldly electorate
\nthat pays attention to how the rest of the world sees us.\n<\/p>\n
\nshould,” said Wilkie, who spent more than 10 years in Jerusalem as a
\nreporter. “We should care how the international community views us,
\nparticularly today, when the U.S. has about as low a standing overseas
\nas we’ve ever had.”\n<\/p>\n
\nthe UM debate would focus on national security and foreign affairs
\ninstead of domestic issues as originally planned. Gispen said the
\nchange adds new relevance to the panel discussion.\n<\/p>\n
\nhighlights the importance of focusing on international studies and
\nAmerica’s place in the world. Our panel should mesh very well with the
\ntheme of the debate.”\n<\/p>\n
\nto a variety of different cultures; consequently, they tend to have a
\nbroader world view than their U.S. counterparts, Wilkie said.\n<\/p>\n
\nworldly, sophisticated and have a better sense of what’s going on in
\nthe world than American journalists,” Wilkie said. “It’s important to
\nunderstand how we’re seen in the world. These are seasoned
\nprofessionals who ask good questions. We need to listen to them.”\n<\/p>\n
\ncall 662-915-1500. To learn more about the Croft Institute, visit http:\/\/www.croft.olemiss.edu<\/a>. For a complete list of presidential debate-related events and more about the debate, visit http:\/\/www.debate.olemiss.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"