People who have visited the U.S. have commented that there appears to be an absence of world news. It mainly concentrates on what is happening in the U.S. to the exclusion of other world events.
"The incentive to produce good and valuable news is not there."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckeqIoZz9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqgBqLrrPrU
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's why I like the British. Guardian.co.uk FTW!
But I think it's misjudgement to say Americans in any way lack world news other than perhaps their consumer's selective interests, as it's there if you just want it, in plenty. Financial Times has a lot of world news, in fact it's starting to feel like a news-channel about China O.o, I subscribe to their channel on YouTube. On the other hand I visited the New York Times's homepage and what one clearly faces there (besides a surprisingly underdeveloped site for such a big paper) is like three-four hard-to-spot articles about somewhere else than the US (including North Korea, which is US-news really, and one less important news about some Irish movie festival) and dozens of articles about US-interest stuff, indicating that even if they deliver world news they might be treating it as secondary news and therefore consumers might easily miss to perspective of somebody else but themselves.
Of course, if you want World news with big "W" then nothing beats Al-Jazeera English, which seems like the only channel with no actual home, picking up news from everywhere of all kinds, whether it's Africa, Asia, Oceania, North- and South America or Europe. All other channels kinda have a home, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, are national newspapers though the most significant of their country, New York Times, Washington Post and such kinda says it in the name. BBC is a good alternative to Al-Jazeera (though in the past they used to say vice versa), I looked up their page and there was lots of world news in the headlines there. Guardian.co.uk, as I mentioned in the beginning, is a good site also but differs in that it recognizes a home having two own sections purely for UK and US news, separating it from the rest of world news.
But I think it's misjudgement to say Americans in any way lack world news other than perhaps their consumer's selective interests, as it's there if you just want it, in plenty. Financial Times has a lot of world news, in fact it's starting to feel like a news-channel about China O.o, I subscribe to their channel on YouTube. On the other hand I visited the New York Times's homepage and what one clearly faces there (besides a surprisingly underdeveloped site for such a big paper) is like three-four hard-to-spot articles about somewhere else than the US (including North Korea, which is US-news really, and one less important news about some Irish movie festival) and dozens of articles about US-interest stuff, indicating that even if they deliver world news they might be treating it as secondary news and therefore consumers might easily miss to perspective of somebody else but themselves.
Of course, if you want World news with big "W" then nothing beats Al-Jazeera English, which seems like the only channel with no actual home, picking up news from everywhere of all kinds, whether it's Africa, Asia, Oceania, North- and South America or Europe. All other channels kinda have a home, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, are national newspapers though the most significant of their country, New York Times, Washington Post and such kinda says it in the name. BBC is a good alternative to Al-Jazeera (though in the past they used to say vice versa), I looked up their page and there was lots of world news in the headlines there. Guardian.co.uk, as I mentioned in the beginning, is a good site also but differs in that it recognizes a home having two own sections purely for UK and US news, separating it from the rest of world news.
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Re: It's a free country.....
Maybe that's because like the planets revolve around the sun, other countries revolve around the U.S.A., whether their citizens like it or not.reasonvemotion wrote:People who have visited the U.S. have commented that there appears to be an absence of world news. It mainly concentrates on what is happening in the U.S. to the exclusion of other world events.