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A paper which considers the reporting of political events in the media with reference to intercultural communications, and the changes which have been brought about through the advent of global communication.
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In order to understand the importance of relating intercultural communication to the way that political events are dealt with by the media, it is perhaps helpful to look briefly at
the parameters of intercultural communication itself and why it has become such an important issue in recent decades. In the past, communication between cultures tended to be a slow and
tentative process, partly because individual cultural groups suffered from a high degree of geographical isolation and partly because the actual speed of communication was slow.
Consequently, the interaction between different cultures was restricted to specific groups within those cultures, such
as politicians responsible for foreign policy issues, and the various national medias focused primarily on domestic issues. Media coverage of international issues, for example, was almost entirely confined to those
political events which directly affected the country concerned. With the breaking-down of national boundaries, radical global changes such as the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the ending of the
Cold War, and the advent of global communications technology, this insularity and isolation also began to undergo change.
The Internet allowed individuals to access information about, and exchange ideas with, those from other cultures without being limited to the
national media for their information: it was therefore possible to sidestep to some extent the influence which was exerted by the establishment over media publications, and gain a different perspective
on both domestic and foreign political issues. At the same time, however, cultural differences also became more marked, in the sense that this freer exchange of ideas highlighted such differences
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