History Main / LocalAngle

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** A rime example was the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in which some newspapers mentioned the 140,000+ Indonesian casualties as an afterthought - in comparison, the number of foreign citizens abroad killed totaled about 2,200.

** Finnish satirist news blog ''Lehti'' ran an article titled "[[http://lehti.samizdat.info/2004/07/24/319/ A Finn Equals 4 Alligators]]", also giving the "official" numbers of tragedy in news. Ten thousand Africans equal 1,000 Asians or other non-whites, equal 100 non-nearby whites, equals 10 nearby whites, which equals four alligators, equals one Finnish person "if you know them". They also ran an article assuring that there were "No Finnish Casualties Among the Dead Pope".

** Many news agencies will still mention the number of Canadians killed on 9/11 when doing stories related to the tragedy. Likewise for the Indonesian Tsunami.

** Foreign news stories which ''don't'' involve Canadians in any way will very often shoehorn in the Prime Minister's official response to the incident, or barring that, the urgings of the Canadian Ambassador to whatever country the story takes place in.

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** Some mid-market tabloids will try to link an international story to something its readership cares about... like house prices. ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' ran a mock ''Daily Mail'' headline talking about how the Fukushima nuclear meltdown after the 2011 Japan earthquake was lowering house prices.
** Then there are local papers, which ignore stories like "global thermonuclear war breaks out" in favour of 'local interest' stories. London's "Evening Standard" is notorious for reporting ''a rumour'' of a strike on the London Underground as its headline, pushing things like the assassination of the Pope onto page 2, while more provincial papers have archetypal headlines like "Edlington man has ferret stolen from back garden".

* A RunningGag in ''Film/ThePaper''. Foreign news reports will only get published in the newspaper if they involved, or were observed by, someone from New York.

This isn't automatically a bad thing. In fact, journalism schools preach the concept of the "LocalAngle" 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."

** Some mid-market tabloids will try to link an international story to something its readership cares about... like house prices. ''PrivateEye'' ran a mock ''Daily Mail'' headline talking about how the Fukushima nuclear meltdown after the 2011 Japan earthquake was lowering house prices.

** Some mid-market tabloids will try to link an international story to something its readership care about... like house prices. ''PrivateEye'' ran a mock ''Daily Mail'' headline talking about how the Fukushima nuclear meltdown after the 2011 Japan earthquake was lowering house prices.

** Prime example in recent times was the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in which some newspapers mentioned the 140,000+ Indonesian casualties as an afterthought - in comparison, the number of foreign citizens abroad killed totalled about 2,200.

* Spoofed in ''NationalLampoonsVacation'' where Chevy Chase is reading a newspaper with the headline: AMERICAN COUPLE MISSING AS JAPAN SLIDES INTO THE SEA.

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* Spoofed in ''NationalLampoonsVacation'' where Chevy Chase is reading a newspaper with the headline: AMERICAN COUPLE MISSING AS JAPAN SLIDES INTO THE SEA.
* Parodied on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. 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.

* ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': The bomber thinks that local news will carry the bombing story first.
* Parodied by the Website/Everything2 node titled "[[http://everything2.com/title/TWO+HUB+MEN+DIE+IN+BLAST%253B+New+York+also+destroyed TWO HUB [i.e. Boston] MEN DIE IN BLAST; New York also destroyed]]."

->''The Sentinel is a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 3,500, soaring to 4,500 in the summer months. It is not the kind of paper that practices the kind of snide, cynical, city-slicker style of journalism exemplified by this article. It's the kind of newspaper where many stories consist mostly of local people's names. You can get into The Sentinel merely by having your birthday.''
-->--'''Creator/DaveBarry'''

* ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': The bomber thinks that local news will carry the bombing story first.

* In many countries, national media will nonetheless focus on the local stories from the city where the paper itself is made, even if they are aimed at basically everybody in the country. Then you have national Argentinian networks going on a special report about how [[WorstNewsJudgementEver it's raining in Buenos Aires]]...

-->--'''DaveBarry'''

** Parodied by ''HaveIGotNewsForYou'': they showed a clip of a horrible accident and then assured the audience that "although that accident looked serious, nobody involved was actually British."