Exam 10: Foreign Affairs Coverage

International relations tend to color U.S. reporting of other places-friends and allies get good framing while enemies and antagonists get negative framing.

Foreign affairs stories rarely comprise even 20% of national news coverage.

What makes reporting on foreign affairs and/or war different from reporting on domestic affairs? How are the sources different? How does the foreign affairs reporting we see look different than reporting on domestic issues? What are the implications for our current situation in Iraq or for democracy more generally?

Foreign affairs gets a lot more coverage than domestic politics from U.S. news outlets.

Though many claim Americans are not interested in foreign affairs, some metrics reflect a more substantial audience for news on international affairs than these arguments suggest.