Alisa Miller of Pub­lic Radio Inter­na­tional is speak­ing at TED 2008 — for her talk she posted a back­ground video depict­ing the shock­ing state of U.S. cable and net­work news organ­i­sa­tions’ reportage.

“The US accounted for 79% of the total news cov­er­age” on Amer­i­can news out­lets ded­i­cated to inter­na­tional news sto­ries in 2006!

I’d love to see a map like this over time — à la Hans Rosling, 2006 — show­ing the fluc­tu­a­tions in size of dif­fer­ent coun­tries as dif­fer­ent news sto­ries break and news report­ing itself evolves.

Thanks, Carl