June 2001 Vol.4, No. 5

Contents New Proposal for Europe's Future   by Paul Kieffer All the News That Fits-Into One Minute    by Melvin Rhodes Day Care Debate: More Than Aggressive Babies   by Cecil E. Maranville In Brief...World News Review    by Cecil E. Maranville, Darris McNeely and John Ross Schroeder This is the Way...Dancing With Death    by Robin Webber All the News That Fits--Into One Minute With the U.S. networks continually cutting back on international coverage, where can a Christian turn to watch world events? by Melvin Rhodes It had to happen. CNN's Headline News, the 30-minute news summary that plays continuously 24 hours a day, now contains The Global Minute, a whole minute devoted to world news, containing three 20-second reports from different areas of the world. This puts international news on a par with Hollywood-Headline News has offered The Hollywood Minute for some time. Walter Cronkite, Katherine Graham and Alistair Cooke are just three of the "old-timers" who have lamented the current state of international news coverage. Alistair Cooke, former presenter of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, has presented his weekly BBC radio Letter From America for over 50 years. Now well into his 90s, Cooke pointed out that the average TV news sound bite is now down to six or seven seconds. "If Abraham Lincoln was to issue the Emancipation Declaration today, he would simply say, 'Read my lips. No more slavery.'" I am continually fascinated by what the major networks consider the lead news item each evening. When I'm home in the evenings, I try to watch BBC America's World News program at 6 p.m. (EST) and follow this with ABC's, CBS's or NBC's 6:30 news. It's as if I've switched to an alternative universe that is experiencing completely different problems. Later in the evening, I sometimes watch CNN or the Fox News channel, but they tend to offer the same fare as the 6:30 news on the main U.S. networks. Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0106/minute.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "All the News That Fits - Into One Minute" Other Articles by Melvin Rhodes News media: _Is All News Local? _A Front-Row Seat for Suffering _'Watch Therefore, and Pray Always' _In the News Jan/Mar 2007 _Sifting the News: What to Look for _When Stars & Lives Collide Media: _Radical Islam -- a Threat to Freedom of Speech? _Another Brick in a New World _"Generation @" Needs Godly Values in Space _Should You Believe All the News You Hear? _Why This Death Didn't Count _The Media's Alternative Gospel _A Telling Profile of Media Professionals _Mass Media and Bible Prophecy _Questions and Answers - Sep/Oct 2002 _How to Choose a Good Movie _How Movies Move Us Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site