MAJOR ESSAY

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????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????”Media cultures in the world are like a thousand or more flowers blooming (and withering). Certain soils produce some kinds of media cultures and other soils produce quite different ones. One of the main determining ingredients is freedom – or lack of it. Another is basic moral philosophy – or lack of it. Another is basic moral philosophy – or lack of it. And another is democratic proclivity – or lack of it.”
– John C. Merrill, in Arnold S. de Beer and John C. Merrill eds. Global Journalism: Topical Issues and Media Systems, 4th edition, 2004, p.23

Discuss Merrill’s argument in the context of the media’s coverage of a current or recent international media event, explaining how different media systems influence individual media’s organisations coverage of such events.