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This article is embarrassingly short for such a well known and popular radio program. I will personally be working on this article in the near future, and I hope that anyone else with knowledge about the show will also help out, in the true wiki spirit

Who wrote the above and why was it posted without attribution?Dagme (talk) 02:28, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Program Lacks Balance and Objectivity?

I would like to see a discussion of where this program gets its money and editorial direction. In my experience, the program seems suspiciously like an echo chamber for current US/UK propaganda about countries on their current shit-list. Just one small example, the coverage of Zimbabwe was completely one-sided. It took US/UK suppositions regarding the nature of the situation there for granted, and only wrung-hands over how to implement US/UK policy best. Similar coverage prevailed over the Iranian "Green Revolution". What Americans need with regard to international news are facts and historical and multiple-perspective political context, not just reinforcement for current political US/UK-centric orthodoxy. RussellSenior (talk) 23:15, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest removing the question mark from the title of this section.

The purpose of the program, as stated in the article, is "to bring international journalism/news that illuminates the world specifically for US listeners". This clearly means that choice of topics and coverage has a particular viewpoint, suited to US listeners who are by implication (in the view of the producers) stupid, ignorant, and reactionary. In this respect, the orientation of the program is the same as that of NPR. Compare this mission with that of Al Jazeera English which, though not perfect, at least strives towards a model which "aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview".

The difference summed up: "The World" = "American Exceptionalism" vs Al Jazeera English = global perspective.---Dagme (talk) 02:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New host

Marco Werman is now the host, as reported here. Franknarf11 (talk) 22:18, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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