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Public broadcasting provides international news from the United Kingdom (ITN News or BBC) and ABC, CBS, and NBC provide world news from the United States.  You must watch both programs in the same night and complete the activity below.

 

1.      Create a list of the issues in the order they were presented on each program.

 

World News from the U.S.A	World News from England
1.	1.
2.	2.
3.	3.
4.	4.
5.	5.
6.	6.
7.	7.
8.	8.
9.	9.
10.	10.

 

2.      What stories appear on both programs?

3.      Was the order different or the attention given to issues different?  If so, how?

4.     Which program included more countries?

5.      What similarities did you notice between the programs? 

6.     What differences did you see?

7.     Which program did you prefer overall?  Why?