Martin Savidge
Keynote Speaker: Correspondent for CNN and Former Host, PBS' WORLDFOCUS.
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Martin Savidge Speaking Topics
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Why is Foreign News so Foreign to American TV News?
If youve ever traveled outside the US and turned on the news then you know there seems to be a lot more reporting about the rest of the world. Its not your imagination, for years foreign news coverage on American networks has been on the decline. Bureaus have steadily closed their staffs laid off. In fact last year attention to international news was at its lowest since records monitoring such things were first published in 1988. Savidge has heard producers at respected news networks say Americans dont care about foreign news. 9/11 should have changed that thinking but instead even today we only learn of international events when they become crises, even though the conditions for that crisis have been brewing for years. It gives Americans the faulty sense that things in the world explode over night when in fact there are clear warning signs going back months or even years. Instead Afghanistan became a launching pad for terror. And today most Americans are still unaware Somalia is about to take its place. What we dont know has and can still, hurt us.
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Covering Conflict - How the Media Goes to War
Savidge has covered at least 10 different conflicts around the world and he can attest to that fact that nothing tests your ability, your humanity or your sanity greater. Every time he arrived to cover a conflict he swore never again but 6-months after he got home he was raising his hand to volunteer once more. His family has been told he was missing and, on a few occasions, dead. You can laugh, cry and nearly die all in the span of 5 minutes. Why do journalists do it? What are the ethical questions of embedding? Can one be too close to the military? What happens when your unit is surrounded by Taliban and only the camera can see the enemy at a distance? Should a cameraman call in the air strikes? When do you put down the microphone and help if the suffering or the shooting is all around you? When do you carry a gun? These are issues you never learn in Journalism school and the ones you seldom hear about on the evening news.
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Good News Gone Bad
How TV news is ruining journalism and threatening democracy in America. With the advent of 24-hour news networks many journalists thought at last there would be time enough to cover an endless variety of important national and international issues. Instead today the cable networks cover 6 to 8 topics a day and run them into the ground or deliver endless real life tragic soap operas of missing children and suspects elevated to celebrities. Time was when you got the just the facts delivery of Cronkite and Chancellor. Now you get news performers who shout, cry and tell you their take as if what they think really matters. Why do networks take sides? Whats advocacy journalism? Why is TV news more and more relying on Youtube for content bringing us surfing dogs, dead flies and singing cockatoos? Where did all the good news go? For years Martin Savidge has helped to break the news on such networks as CNN and NBC now he turns a critical eye on what its going to take to try and fix the news. He looks at an industry in turmoil, thats laying off staff, shutting down bureaus and cutting back coverage as never beforeeven as nearly 2/3rds of Americans say they rely on television for their national and international news. He discusses how things get so bad and why viewers share in the blame.
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