The document discusses issues concerning global news production and distribution. It begins by having students list news channels and categorize them as having US bias, other bias, or being unbiased. It then discusses how news has changed from getting it through newspapers to online and television. The top 5 global news players are identified as Al Jazeera English, CNN, France 24, Russia Today, and the BBC. Main issues with global media and news are the questions of bias in reporting and news production being treated as a commodity concerned with profit over truth and objectivity.