Malone Post 6

The article title "Arab Media Lagging Behind" can be linked to the presentation by our guest speaker in a couple of different ways.  First of all, the timeliness of the news reporting is not as up to the minute as it is in the United States and other Western cultures.  There is usually a lag time between events happening and them being reported to the public that is much greater than the nearly constant "live" reporting that occurs in the United States.  This may be because of a couple of reasons.  First of all, in some middle eastern countries the government controls what the media shows the public.  Therefore, the government must have time to process the news after it happens and decide what they want to media to show and how they want them to show it.  Secondly, some Arabic countries do not have access to the same technology or resources to get the news to the public as fast as it is in the United States.  The reasons may be the reasons for the conception that the Arab media is lagging behind as the article is titled.