TED Conversations  greg dahlen  Alumnus, academy of achievement
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one »  what makes a story go national, or international?
Certain incidents and events become known across a nation where
many or most people are aware of them, thinking, talking and
feeling about them. Here in the U.S. I can think recently of the
trial of George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin as one such
story, and Miley Cyrus's appearance at the VMA awards where she
"twerked" vigorously as another. One international story is the
problems of Greece, and I imagine Barack Obama's election made
some waves in other countries (did it?) What is it that makes
certain stories get many people's attention and awareness? Is it
that there's a lot of emotion in the events involved? Is it that
something in the story impinges on many other people's lives,
and how does that work? Perhaps there are different factors for
why different stories become prominent?  For those in other than
the U.S.,