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U.S./U.K. News Reporting Coverage of HIV

British and American news coverage of HIV treatments is vastly different. The BBC coverage is broader and offers far more insight into experimental treatments than the CNN Web site. In fact, the CNN Web site unnecessarily politicizes HIV by including more stories about politician's speeches mentioning HIV and AIDS than about treatments and breakthroughs for the disease.

For example, on the CNN Web site, a headline reads, "President Bush: Faith key to international AIDS fight." The story details how President Bush supports a program raising money for faith-based AIDS prevention programs in Africa. Interestingly, the program does not include funding for research into medical treatments. CNN neglects reporting on medical interventions in order to offer more political coverage that does not address how to treat HIV / AIDS from a scientific perspective. The remainder of CNN's coverage about HIV treatments also reveals a dearth of articles that cover medical interventions. Like the BBC, though, CNN does offer some stories that show how HIV is affecting poor nations and poor people worldwide.

The BBC does not mention the faith-based program in their recent coverage of the HIV crisis. Instead, stories like Calvi's "The Battle for the HIV 'morning after' drug" detail emerging, even if controversial, pharmaceutical interventions. The BBC story addresses a drug called "post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)" which "has been shown in studies to reduce the chance of infection after the HIV virus has entered the body by 80%," (Calvi 2006). Calvi also notes that efforts to prescribe the drug more readily have been stymied, even though PEP could have prevented infection. Other BBC articles about HIV / AIDS are political but more in terms of how HIV affects the poor.

2. Neither the BBC nor CNN report on environmental issues directly in terms of the democratic and republican positions. Yet each source of news does cover environmental issues with some spin. Based on their Web site content, the British and American media present environmental issues differently. Both Web sites deliver pages dedicated to coverage of climate change and related issues. The American content includes more stories detailing the perspectives of those who doubt human responsibility for global warming.

On the BBC, top climate change-related headlines are alarmist including one about potential crop devastation and also how climate change will affect Britain's coasts directly. No main headline reveals a perspective that denies human responsibility for climate change. On CNN, a few alarmist headlines are tempered by one about Southern Baptist leaders who disagree over whether or not human beings cause climate change. A second article addresses climate change from a skeptical perspective: "Global warming: A natural cycle or human result?"

BBC article entitled "EU warns of climate change threat" reveals the social consequences of global climate change. Population migration and clashes over resource allocation could lead to military conflicts, for example. The American coverage on CNN is far less insightful, focusing more on the ongoing debate over the human factor. CNN's Tanneeru reports on how global warming is affecting Antarctica but not without politicizing the issue. The BBC resists nitpicking about human impacts on climate change and instead… READ MORE

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