Katty Kay’s Globally Calibrated Newscast

“Where else would you learn that the U.S. State Department has reiterated its call for democracy in Fiji?”

Yup, Howard Kurtz‘s column is about the BBC, and more specifically, Katty Kay‘s daily BBC World newscast from Washington.

“Kay reaches more viewers in this country than most cable news hosts. But unlike, say, PBS’s NewsHour, she must calibrate her content for a global audience,” Kurtz says. More…

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