Abstract
A six months monitoring, May October 1979, of Tasmanian television news provides insights into the nature of African news. Shortcomings emerge such as the fact that while some regions received extensive attention the coup d'etat in Ghana went totally unreported.
The television international news agencies, Visnews and UPITN are looked at. Though at the time of the monitoring Visnews was a monopoly in international TV news supply, UPITN has now broken into the Australian market. UPITN is of considerable interest to Africanists. Until 1979 it had covert ties with the South African Department of Information.
Since television news reports on Africa dwellon crises, and provide little information of a positive nature, they project a decidedly negative image of Africa to the Australian public.
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