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Originally Posted by crosvs
Having travelled the world quite a bit -- although mostly throughout Europe -- there's something I still don't understand:
Why is it that it *seems* (i do not claim to presume that this is an accurate statistic) that 75%+ of our news stories involve matters of killings, rapings, child abandonments/abductions, or random miscellaneous "weird stories" like the "mysterious chunk of ice that fell through a San Diego home", and that our weather reports RARELY even seem to include international weather reports.....
...... while European newspapers and TV channels have far MORE international news, they have far FEWER killings, rapings, child abandonments/abductions, or random misc stories -- and all their weather reports include, well, the whole world, even all of the US?!?!
In short: why is it that American newspapers and news channels seem to be a very literal SUBSET of European news?? Why are we getting so short-changed ?????
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After living here 10 years I still don't understand the news format here, soo poor. It's ashamed since this is the reason why most Americans are so clueless of the world they live in and generally have the wrong perception of other cultures, langages and geography.