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sabrina 1

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4. Interesting article on your blog, and some good points.
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 08:40 PM
Jan 2014

Sensationalism does sell, because the population is conditioned to it. I wonder how it sells in other countries, like Norway eg where the level of education is so much higher in general? Would people react just as much to articles about protesters feeding the homeless as they would to a photo showing conflict?

I can't answer that without knowing something about the media in other developed countries. Presentation is everything so maybe that aspect of media, how to present something that does not show conflict but is way more important, so that it gets the attention of the public ...

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