Laura Ingraham back from Africa

She reports that foreign newspapers are such much more unamerican than our own media she is tempted to stop being so hard on US major media.

1) Laura needs to pay a little more attention to the global press. This is how you catch some stuff on the horizon.

2) Nixon said that the US press is liberal, but they are storyhounds first, so they'll cover stories of liberals in scandal too, they are just a bit more sensitive and forgiving. A perfect example is the scandal over the New Jersey governor who set up his adulterous lover in a state job for which the lover was unqualified. That's the real story, the fact that the governor is bisexual is a coincidence. See this CNN story. Their headline is "New Jersey governor quits, comes out as gay: McGreevey announces resignation after telling of affair." The quitting is news. The gay (he's married with children, I think bisexual is more accurate, but whatever) is just a big warning flag for the media to use kid gloves. He's not quitting because he had an affair.

3) Its no wonder the rest of the world is hostile. By coincidence, my previous post was on international trade news, and as I noted, the German version of the story supported the home team against the Americans. A great deal of foreign news is pretty outrageous. I'm generally more interested in figuring out what's going on rather than finding examples of crazy foreign news, but I do come across it from time to time.