According to the World Bank, there are around 493 million people living in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet those 3% took up 67% of CNN.com’s coverage of the region during the month of July 2023. During the month of July, CNN’s “Middle East” section (which includes North African countries, as well as Afghanistan) featured 40 articles. It means that CNN’s audience is left largely ignorant about the realities facing 97% of the people in the region. What CNN.com’s readership does deserve is accurate coverage of the region as a whole, not just what’s happening in one small country.

Source: CNN August 02, 2023 19:37 UTC