The Georgia conflict in the media

The Georgia Russia conflict has been one of the most talked about international issues in the last month and a half, especially in the American media. Major American news outlets have a tendency to focus heavily on a particular international issue for a while, as the immediate conflict dies down so does the coverage.  

The Georgia Russia conflict began in early August, and CNN reported the invasion of Russian troops with their eyewitness crews.  In some articles and commentary, it has been argued that the U.S. maintains a strong interest in this conflict because of economic interests in the region and therefore has remained in the forefront of major news outlet's international coverage. In the same instance others believe that the American media has not made the conflict a big enough priority. Based on 12a@ CNN covered the Georgian president's opinion of this conflict, while coverage of Russia's point of view has been limited.  According to the American Thinker Blog, in the days after the conflict made headlines, Russian government felt that they were being portrayed incorrectly by western news media. 

Each of these articles and opinion pieces frame the Russia conflict differently. An interesting reasoning of the differences in coverage can be attributed to each media outlet's biases that govern the way that news is distributed. Besides political interests, some media outlets frame issues and stories based on their religious and social beliefs. American media is consistently criticized for not providing a wide enough objective scope of issues that occur in the global community.