This morning I read an interesting article about the prevailing narrative of Africa as hopeless, despondent, violent, etc:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/jina_moore_africa_journalism_colonialism.php
Latin America is served better by the US media, I think. I mean, nobody really blankets stories under the broad characterization of Latin America as a whole. But the simplification still exists, as one scholar argues, just on a smaller scale: http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/venezuelas-colectivos-and-the-broken-u-s-narrative-of-chavez-as-the-wizard-of-oz/
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