veronica-rich:

afro-elf:

americans, months ago: hey we just discovered that local news stations are actually being turned into state sponsored propaganda tools with terrorist alert desks and biased information about the fascist president which would influence public perception of him for those who trust their local stations. and we’d love to see more international news but apparently we’re not even getting accurate reports from our own backyards so for a lot of us common everyday folk we have to go out of our way to get news that’s not us-centric AND accurate

y’all, for some inexplicable reason: why don’t y’all know everything that’s happening everywhere else always? you must not care, that’s the only reason

This is a very good point. Despite writing the news for several years before I first traveled overseas 20 years ago, I was woefully unaware of the basic concept of “where you are in the world determines how you cover and read the news,” mainly because I only wrote about local and state stuff, occasionally national events. So if someone IN the news business has to go overseas to figure this out, imagine how unaware the average person with a different kind of job and family, other obligations, etc. is of their options.

(To be fair, 20 years ago the internet had a LOT less on it in the way of international news than it does now and people were much less savvy in how to track down those sources.)