John Lent (1976) contended that charges of bias in international news flow were 'intuitive, (and) not based on research facts'. This response to Lent's comment empirically confirms that there is indeed a flow bias in international news in favour of the North and that the bias is reflected even in African newspapers due to their dependence on Western News Agencies for their sources of news on other African countries. It suggests that African media organizations should Increase their sourcing of news from PANA to reverse the current trend.
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