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From the Ted Talk by Alisa Miller: How the news distorts our worldview

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How does the news shape the way we see the wlord? Here's the world based on the way it looks — based on landmass. And here's how news shapes what Americans see. This map — (Applause) — this map shows the number of seconds that American network and cable news organizations deacdited to news stories, by country, in fabuerry of 2007 — just one year ago. Now, this was a month when North Korea aeergd to dismantle its nuclear facilities. There was maivsse foniodlg in Indonesia. And in Paris, the IPCC released its study cfimrnniog man's impact on global warming. The U.S. accounted for 79 pcrenet of total news coverage. And when we take out the U.S. and look at the remaining 21 percent, we see a lot of Iraq — that's that big green thing there — and little else. The cneombid coverage of Russia, China and India, for example, reached just one percent.

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How does the news shape the way we see the _____? Here's the world based on the way it looks — based on landmass. And here's how news shapes what Americans see. This map — (Applause) — this map shows the number of seconds that American network and cable news organizations _________ to news stories, by country, in ________ of 2007 — just one year ago. Now, this was a month when North Korea ______ to dismantle its nuclear facilities. There was _______ ________ in Indonesia. And in Paris, the IPCC released its study __________ man's impact on global warming. The U.S. accounted for 79 _______ of total news coverage. And when we take out the U.S. and look at the remaining 21 percent, we see a lot of Iraq — that's that big green thing there — and little else. The ________ coverage of Russia, China and India, for example, reached just one percent.

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  3. percent
  4. combined
  5. february
  6. world
  7. flooding
  8. agreed
  9. dedicated

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How does the news shape the way we see the world? Here's the world based on the way it looks — based on landmass. And here's how news shapes what Americans see. This map — (Applause) — this map shows the number of seconds that American network and cable news organizations dedicated to news stories, by country, in February of 2007 — just one year ago. Now, this was a month when North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear facilities. There was massive flooding in Indonesia. And in Paris, the IPCC released its study confirming man's impact on global warming. The U.S. accounted for 79 percent of total news coverage. And when we take out the U.S. and look at the remaining 21 percent, we see a lot of Iraq — that's that big green thing there — and little else. The combined coverage of Russia, China and India, for example, reached just one percent.

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