THE ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDIA'S INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD - CNN AND BBC

The English speaking media have a large impact on the world. CNN and BBC are the English speaking most influential channels. The BBC is available in over 274 million households worldwide. And CNN has 200 million households worldwide. Those two channels alone gives us the news from all over the world. How those this influence the world?

Britain's BBC is the world's largest broadcasting corporation. The BBC is also the world's oldest national broadcasting organization, founded way back in 1922. The stated mission of the BBC is "to inform, educate and entertain". Cable News Network (CNN) is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. CNN was the first channel to provide 24 hours television news and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

The impacts these two channels have are huge. They get to decide what news to present. The news from for example south of America is never presented. This could be because the news from south of America can give a negative view on USA. 


Most of the English speaking media just present the entertaining news, and leave the less entertaining news out. This could be to get more readers and viewers. But what about the news thats less entertaining, this news can be important as well. 

The media also impact us on the way we see other countries in a positive or negative way. The English speaking media have for example influenced many countries to get a negative view on Afghanistan and other Arabic countries. The reason for this could be because of USA and their war against Afghanistan. USA wants people to get on their side of the conflict. The way they influent people are through the media. They give a negative impact on Afghanistan and for their side of the conflict.

The media is the largest channel for influence on people and countries. This major power opportunity can be used in both a positive and negative way. Both BBC and CNN can impact counties for Britain or USA advantage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc