Subject: [fem-women2000 416] Women 2000 Media Analysis / $B=w@-(B 2000 $BG/2q5D%a%G%#%"$NJsF;>u67J,@O(B
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---------------- Original message follows ----------------
 From: "Leslie Wright" <lesliewright@dellnet.com>
 To: <ngo-csw-ny@egroups.com>
 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:28:49 -0400
 Subject: [ngo-csw-ny] Fw: Women 2000 Media Analysis
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This summary of media coverage does not include everything, but it is very
comprehensive.  If you have seen other things in the press, you should let
me know.  For example, there were also web radio broadcasts from the 6th
floor of the Church Center -- programs developed by participants, that went
worldwide thanks to FIRE.  Also, there is little stated here about the
extensive coverage of the girls.  Many more women's voices should have been
quoted, in press throughout the world.  Women will need to speak out more in
their countries.

----- Original Message -----
>From: women2000 <women2000@ccmc.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:06 PM
Subject: Women 2000 Media Analysis


text from
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> Dear Women 2000:
>
> U.S. media outlets began reporting in late May on Women 2000, also known
> as Beijing+5. The conference brought thousands of women and men from 185
> countries to a United Nations General Assembly Special Session evaluating
> women's progress worldwide since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women
> in Beijing. Leaders from the United States and around the world, including
> hundreds of representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), held
> panels, workshops and special events throughout New York City starting on
> May 30 through June 9.
>
> The following is an extensive analysis of coverage in U.S media, based
> both on news clips posted daily during the conference in our
> Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) press room and on subsequent
> stories. Please feel free to share this analysis with others interested in
> how the media viewed Women 2000/Beijing+5 and its issues. For additional
> background, please visit CCMC's journalists' websites at
> <http://www.women2000newsroom.org> and <http://www.planetwire.org>.  The
> latter includes a summary Webcast of conference highlights.
>
> This analysis first presents a few striking facts that some news outlets
> reported but that you may have missed. It then reviews the coverage as a
> whole (dividing it into stories before the Special Session, coverage
> during the conference, and wrap-up articles), focuses on key wire, print
> and broadcast reports and finally summarizes editorials and columns.
>
> Although this analysis focuses on mainstream media coverage, there was
> extensive alternative press coverage of Women 2000, particularly on the
> Web.  Women-centered Web sites such as iVillage and Oxygen provided
> ongoing coverage of the conference and in some cases posted portions of
> the NGO press kit; however their coverage is not archived. Women's Web
> sites with archived coverage include Women's Enews
> (<http://www.womensenews.org>), which included a series of by-line pieces
> by guest authors; Women.com
> (<http://www.women.com/news/features/f0605un.html>); Lifetime Television
> for Women (http://www.lifetimetv.com/about/trophy/bejing_plus5.html
> <http://www.lifetimetv.com>) and WomenAction 2000
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