it is very difficult to get international news in the USA, that is, news about events in other parts of the world which do not impact America society or psyche directly. this is both a telling and a disturbing fact of America.
each time in the past 2 decades I have returned to the USA for a visit, I have found "international news" is missing. not only is news filled with the well-known entertainment gossip, and human-interest scandals, but international news is almost impossible to find, without special effort. (and now via the internet.) this "provincial" self-mirroring of the US population viewing itself in hours of often trivial "news", is another sign of the fact that the USA is out of touch with the world.
one aspect of "news" in the world that many people do not seem to know, is that the international broadcasts of eg CNN and BBC are not the same as is shown in the USA. they have perhaps 70-80% -- but this is just a guess from experience -- different content. American BBC and CNN, not to consider the other domestic networks -- are about America almost exclusively. and and program like Anderson Cooper 360 is little more than emotion-mongering.
one hour of international BBC or CNN in Moscow is more international news that one might view in a month of US domestic news", even on "the same" channels.
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