British propaganda network

When living in Poland one of the only english outlets for me was the American propaganda network - CNN. If you think CNN is bad at home, it is ten times worse when overseas. 24 hours a day you get some the story bludgeoned to death. Back then it was the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Of the english channels we've received here, only once have we seen CNN. Instead, it has been replaced with the British version - Skynews. Or CNN with an accent, and slightly more balanced. The flavour of the month this time has been the crashing economy, sprinkled lightly with the US elections.

Seeing the economy from a European perspective is actually quite interesting. As far as I can tell, the average American doesn't really get the full impact of how badly wounded their economy is (including the super sale-style spending of Bush). When at home, you hardly hear about it on the news. Here you hear about the EU leaders working to address the issue head-on. At the back of my mind I hear them silently cursing the americans for this jam that they've been put in.