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Local Angle
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Different news entities serve different constituencies. As one might expect, that has a marked effect on the focus of the organization in question. An American newspaper like The New York Times serves an international constituency. The paper's management can make no predictions regarding the location of its readers. As a result, its reporters are free to write stories detailing how a given issue affects — well, the world. On the other hand, consider The Normalsville Argus, serving the fine citizenry of Normalsville, Kansas, population 27,000. Unlike The Times, The Argus knows exactly from where it draws its readership. As a result, the paper's reporters need to write stories of interest to its readers: the good people of Normalsville. If Congress passes a sweeping bill, a citizen of this small Kansas town can go to The Times or The Washington Post for the national impact of the legislation. He only has one place to go for his local news, however. Expect any story on the sweeping national legislation appearing in The Argus to focus on its impact, however minimal, on Normalsville. This isn't automatically a bad thing. In fact, journalism schools preach the concept of the "Local angle" to their students. After all, who else is going to report on Normalsville, KS if not the local paper? It does, however, tend to produce some uncomfortable dissonance with readers, insofar as the local press can seem to dismiss the lives of billions of people who don't live in their city, state or country. So if a ferry capsizes off the coast of Great Britain and 200 people drown, it will get a couple of inches in the Kenyan tabloid press. Spanish papers will give it a couple of pages. In Britain, it's "front page, get the black background out" news. However, if there was a Kenyan citizen upon that ferry then it will get more press with a caption along the lines of "One Kenyan man dead with 200 others in Ferry tragedy." A subtrope of Creator Provincialism and A Million Is a Statistic. Can overlap with Worst News Judgment Ever when it's particularly egregious. |
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Spoofed in National Lampoon's Vacation where Chevy Chase is reading a newspaper with the headline: AMERICAN COUPLE MISSING AS JAPAN SLIDES INTO THE SEA. | |
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Parodied on Parks and Recreation. Leslie comments on how a local kid went to the Olympics once and the local media reported on it for over a year afterward. The punchline is that said kid was an audience member rather than a competitor. | |
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Extensively parodied in a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch featuring Mel Smith as a newsreader who reads out the nationality of the casualties in a major accident "in order of importance", starting with the British, then Anglophone countries, then most of Europe, then Asia and Africa, and finally concluding "A Frenchman also died, but his English wasn't very good." | |
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Parodied by Have I Got News for You: they showed a clip of a horrible accident and then assured the audience that "although that accident looked serious, nobody involved was actually British." | |
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Some mid-market tabloids will try to link an international story to something its readership cares about... like house prices. Private Eye ran a mock Daily Mail headline talking about how the Fukushima nuclear meltdown after the 2011 Japan earthquake was lowering house prices. | |
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Parodied by the Everything2 node titled "TWO HUB [i.e. Boston] MEN DIE IN BLAST; New York also destroyed." | |
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Parodied on the Monty Python's Flying Circus segment "News for Parrots," which told the same stories as the regular news but from a parrot POV. | |
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: The bomber thinks that local news will carry the bombing story first. | |
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