Most of my research has been comparative that is cross-national or international in scope. And most of my research, with some exceptions, deal with news. I was a news maniac. In fact, my son who was then about five or six years old, once commented to me when I was looking at something over and over again, he said, "Aren't you bored watching the same news item again and again?" And I said, "No, because each time I look at it, I see new things." I think that one of the innovative studies that I did with my two very good colleagues, Hanna Adoni and Charles Bantz, who was then at the University of Minnesota, we did a project on what we call "social conflict in television news". What stands behind this is the fact that most news is conflict; typically, conflict stories dominate the news. And it was interesting for us to look at what and how television news covers, in terms of social conflict. Now, we developed three dimensions of conflict, what we called complexity, intensity, and solvability of conflict. That is you can analyze any particular conflict along the dimensions of how complex it is, how intense it is, and how solvable or insoluble it seems to be. What we were interested in doing is to look at how conflicts were presented on television news, on the one hand, and how audiences perceived conflicts, not just on television news but also in the real world. Now, at the time that we were doing this, what was probably the most popular theoretical approach then was Gerbner and Gross' Cultivation Theory. Namely, that people perceive the world through television, they emphasize violence. But, in general, the idea that people perceive the world via the media, via television. Our research was conducted in five countries. We also surveyed people asking them how they perceive specific conflicts in their environment and on television. What we found is that people are able to make the distinction between the real world and the way things are presented on television. Basically, based on Media Dependency Theory, that is the closer they are to the real conflict, the less dependent they would be on television for their perception of what the conflict was all about, how complex it was, how intense it was, how solvable it was. Another comparative study with 11 countries was a study that ended up also in a book called "Global Newsrooms, Local Audiences". Now that, to my mind, is one of the most interesting studies I've ever done. It was a study on the European Broadcasting Union's news exchange service. Most people know the European Broadcasting Union or the EBU because of the Eurovision Song Contest. We analyzed how the different stories were developed, and treated, and presented on the news of that day in the 11 different countries. What we discovered was that to a large extent, the news items became domesticated for the local audience. We also did surveys of audiences in several of the countries to understand what sense they make of the story and to what extent they feel that the stories in fact are domesticated for them.