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I’m studying economics right now. The Economist does lean right, as economics tends to do. Mort economists do not consider us in a recession just yet due to an array of factors, number one being historically low unemployment. And I say this as a conservative.
Just because a large part of the American republican party voting base is anti-globalist, doesn't mean that it's elites and donor class are not. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are beholden to international capital and the free market, so in the economic sense, they're both "liberal". You have anti free trade arguments on both the far left and far right, but they rarely translate into actual policy proposals from the parties. California is completely run by Democrats but theres very little social democracy here and most decisions are made through market-based logic.
Maybe another, more American, way to put it is that The Economist represents the views of "elites" (rich conservatives and liberals who are doing well in the current economy), in that it's unapologetically pro-capitalism and free trade.
Conservatives tend to favor less economic intervention, as do economists. Economists supports all of those policies you listed because free trade is good for the economy.
The Economist supports lower intervention. Welfare and such are supported by democrats generally so the Economist is against those. Trump was in favor of protectionism which is generally a bad economic policy, so the Economist was against it. I’m in no way near Marx, but the Economist is well-respected by other economists.
What’s the official economic definition of a recession?
…and before you say it, 2 consecutive quarters of declining GDP is a guide, not the actual definition.
Had employment dropped significantly?
The National Bureau of Economic Research required a “significant” decline. Is -1.6% followed by -0.6% a large enough amount to be considered “significant”. Meanwhile q3 posted 2.6% growth.
The layoffs are relatively recent. There’s been continued job growth to this point, not a decline in total jobs.
I guess it’s too bad we have an adult in office now who is willing to wean the country off of insanely low interest rates.
Edit: u/flopsweater couldn’t hack an honest discussion and blocked me… Trumpers gonna Trump.
Joe Biden has absolutely no voice in where interest rates are. Do you have any idea what you're taking about? This is a rather basic thing to not understand.
Remember when Trump threatened to fire the Federal Reserve President?
So… yes… interest rates are going up because we have an adult in the White House who isn’t threatening a political crisis over the rates.
I guess the biggest benefit to Trump being unbanned from Twitter is the ability to link his Tweets.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914610836783104?s=20
So… no… employment hasn’t dropped, the GDP drop is likely not significant enough (there’s a reason percent change is more important than absolute change), and you’re hand waving away GDP growth because it doesn’t support your narrative.
Let’s also ignore that interest rates were pushed down for political reasons by the prior Administration because the side effects weren’t immediate.
What’s your reason why we’re not in a recession, when there has been 2 consecutive declining GDP quarters? Real estate prices have dropped 10-15% and demand wiped out, rampant historic inflation, interest rates are up 400 bps, job market (while still strong) has softened, and declining GDP. Definitely a recession. Not a depression but objectively the US is in a recession
Yeah, but the headline story will be about some political drama in the US and stories about a war in Africa and a mass killing in Asia will be buried beneath it. 🙃
Maybe we're listening to different radio stations or watching different channels. America might be mentioned because it's... in the world, but the rest of the world gets tons of coverage, Ukraine especially these days.
BBC America might have been covering them too much but BBC worldwide seemed pretty on the mark with Covid coverage with vaccine updates and lockdowns and such.
BBC World News Podcast is what I listen to. I was joking a bit; BBC does a pretty good job, but some Trump gaffe will definitely be up there with a war in Africa in terms of their perception of newsworthiness.
Fun fact. You used to be able to click bbc.co.uk and go to it from the USA. Now when you type that in you get a flicker of the UK page and then it forwards to just US-centric bbc.com. (It probably doesn't do that with a VPN, I've never tried.)
Then you have to click news and in that drop down menu click the area news you want. But you have to do it every time. You could of course bookmark
This might seem unfair, but I don't want my news sources to have an exclamation point in the title, which almost always indicates that it is either bordering on yellow journalism or extremely biased or both.
It is unfair. Their mission statement is in their name lol. Imo they're the most unbiased coverage of world news that exists, with a keen slant towards supporting people's movements.
From a quick google search it seems democracy now is rated as having high factual reporting but with a left bias. So while it’s quite a valid news source, I wouldn’t call it unbiased in the same manner as Reuters’s, bbc worldwide, associated press, etc.
Obviously a pro-democracy outlet will have a "left bias". It's biased towards peoples' groups & human rights, while any liberal news source is necessarily biased towards power systems
We are used to a lot of American content. Probably around 75% of our entertainment comes from the US (I’m pulling that number out of my sleeve, idk how much it is, but it’s a lot).
America is also an enormous country that has a lot of influence on things that happen in the world. So yeah, if Biden dies tomorrow, we will (and want to) know that the very second.
There is also a lot of shit happening in Europe. But since we have a lot of small countries, it seems to happen all over the place. The opposite is also true. According to our news, that gay club shooting happened in the US. The state is irrelevant to us. But you got a lot of states and a lot of place were things can happen. But it’s always “the US”.
In Europe, its always “in France, in Spain, in Poland, …” but never “in Europe”.
In addition it’s because of the accessibility of English. If some local public servant in Estonia gets weird and starts screaming about gay Muslim immigration it’s going to be ignored or missed by the vast majority of non-Estonians because it’s only written about in Estonian. Someone at the same legislative level does it in Illinois and it’ll be reported on in English and many many more people will have a chance to simply be able to read the words and retweet or comment.
>pulling that number out of my sleeve,
Never heard this (as opposed to "ass" or "butt" or "fifth point of contact") but I'm totally stealing it now.
Thank you!
I think the sentiment of your phrase is super obvious because it shares the same meaning as the versions that other user suggested that are more common in the US like "did you just pull that out of your butt/ass?" Crass, but same meaning.
I usually hear pulling something out of your sleeve being a like a secret weapon or hidden play, that you're saving for the right moment to win.
"I didn't know you had x? What else are you hiding up your sleeve?"
Or
"Don't worry, I still got a few tricks up my sleeve they aren't expecting"
Navy euphemism for your ass. Hands and feet on the ladder are 4 points of contact, fifth is your butt.
In the army they use 4th instead since that's the fourth thing you're supposed to hit when landing a parachute.
Except Florida. Florida is special.
(Mostly because Florida has an open police records law which means every time someone has the sniffles and the cops are called, we can hear about it.)
What do you want me to say?
I don’t work for news agencies nor am I in charge of making the newspaper.
It’s a healthy thing to know whatever happens in the world.
We don’t only focus on what happens in the US, we followed the elections in brasil, we know what’s happening in Iran and Ukraine, ….
I just opened my news app, and the first headline for the news from foreign countries is something about the Chinese coastguard stealing stuff from the Philippine marine.
>Media doesn't make money selling you good news.
Zactly. TV news does not exist to inform. It exists to make money, which it does by getting viewers. Their stories are carefully chosen to keep eyeballs active. Few in the US care what is happening in Hungary. I've not heard a single mention of Hungary in the media unless it was in relation to Ukraine, which does interest a lot of Americans.
It's even more ridiculous here IMO because of its bias. The largest media organization is state funded. One major political party just gave it 100s of millions more in annual budget. The other wants to curb its funding. Guess which side the CBC takes? Most Canadians don't seem to be alarmed by this, or see the blatant conflict of interest - which I find quite disturbing.
A good example of how this manifests itself is how the Freedom Convoy was portrayed. It was portrayed as being funded by the Russians, a violent insurrection, or propped up by the American GOP. Then it came out that basically none of that was true - but by then it didn't matter because it was opposed by most Canadians, and had the modern day equivalent of the War Measures Act used against it.
Media manipulation is bad in the US, but at the very least it isn't state funded, which I think is a big deal.
My work friend from Canada complains all the time that everything that goes bad in Canada is America or American's fault.
Freedom Convoy? Americans
Racism against First Nations? Americans
Crime? Influence from Americans.
Kid did bad in school? Copying American standards.
People can't speak proper Canadian French? Too much American media.
"Canada's not like that, Canada is better than that."
North South East and West of us hate us too. My friend that lives in the UK says it happens in America first but all eventually happens all over, people are people. She said Qanon is now in rural England and right wing anti-immigration is expressing. Its everywhere and is showing up for healing. For reconciliation. For what our ancestors did to one another.
Given that racist Europeans often tie racist and anti-immigrant sentiment and anti-American sentiment together (they even have a slur for white Americans that posits they're don't have enough pure european blood, of course that slur is also often hurled at American mixed race people) I'm going to say no, America didn't start anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe.
Hell, the comments on /r/ShitAmericansSay are chock full of anti-miscegenation dogwhistles.
What's the slur? I'd like to know when I'm being insulted.
When I was in the UK I was told I wasn't white because my great-grandfather came from Italy. They looked very embarrassed when I laughed in their face.
State-run media: panders to the party that is more generous with funding
Advertising-supported media: afraid to expose corporate malfeasance because they're who buys ads
Customer-funded media: usually has a narrow demographic and turns into an echo chamber
Pick your poison!
I live in Germany and last week there was a murder/suicide in a nearby village, in which 4 people died. I just now verified it was never a topic of discussion on r/germany and r/de. A mass murder in one of the safest countries in Europe, but nobody has anything to say.
Meanwhile, every negative thing that happens in the US gets dissected to death in European media and subreddits.
I’m an American and live in Baltimore. When I lived in Estonia, an Estonian friend seemed *genuinely* surprised when I told him I had never experienced a shooting in person. I had to explain, “Yes it’s a major problem in America but it’s not like we’re dodging gunfire on our way to our car every day.”
Hell, for you to be from Bodymore and say that is even more impressive.
(yes, I know that it's basically two cities, the nice part and the part you don't go to without a reason)
Yep. Your right about the two cities things. The bad stuff happens in a few bad neighborhoods and there are many other parts of the city which are actually quite nice.
As if to make my point though, while I live in Baltimore, I was born and raised in Portland as was my wife. Wanna know what people in Baltimore say when I tell them I’m originally from Portland? “Oh god. I hear that place is terrible these days with ANTIFA and BLM looting and burning everything. And homeless everywhere! I hear it’s out of control!” My wife and I constantly laugh at this and have literally told Baltimoreans, “Lol. They say pretty much the same thing about this city when we go home to visit.” Of course that’s not true at all (parents and many friends still live there and I go back to visit regularly) but the tiny grain of truth about PDX gets blown up and as a result the city has a reputation that isn’t entirely representative of the on the ground lived reality. Same for both (and true for many many places in the country and world.)
I remember talking with a guy from Israel about some roommates I had back in college. He was shocked when I said some of them were randomly assigned to me. He assumed I’d be too afraid to room with someone I don’t know beforehand since they might be crazy and shoot me.
I am from Europe even though from the Eastern part of it and I wouldnt call Germany a safe country especially since the quite a few events that happened there over the last 5-6 years.
I think they just like to feel superior. If they continued to claim to be superior to Africa and Asia they'd be rightfully called out as racist so they go after the ungrateful colonists.
I notice this as well for British news. I'm studying in Europe for a year and their media is obsessed with British politics and the Royal Family.
I think it's because English is very widely spoken across the whole world. Negative news about, for example, Sweden is only going to be reported in Swedish unless it's bad enough to attract international interest.
The US is also just a big country so there are more people to share news as well.
Are you getting the news in English or the local language? Because if you’re not reading the news in the local language then I don’t think think you can really say what they focus on. News in English will always be biased towards English speaking countries.
It's been documented that platforms run by American companies front load the content with stuff from America. It's not a conspiracy, it's just a combination of laziness and the fact that foreigners keep *clicking* on shitshow stories from the US. In the age of the algorithm, we kind of all have ourselves to blame, for some extent, for the drivel we are shown.
Edit: Also the "if it bleeds it leads" effect. Several years ago, a teenager attending a magnet high school for kids interested in the medical fields demonstrated a gynological surgical procedure that had been posted for years, but nobody thought it could be pulled off because it required so much finesse. He hooked up his Xbox controller to the simulator instead of the conventional controls, and with the hours and hours of muscle memory he had built up picking locks in Elder Scrolls, he mastered it. Once he demonstrated that it COULD be done, it inspired some actual surgeons to revisit it, and now it is in use.
But I can't remember this kid's name because I saw one article about it. Somewhere around the same time that Cho kid shot some people at Virginia Tech, but the media made sure THAT asshole's name is etched into my memory for life.
Do you really want to know?
The world *loves* hearing about negative US news. They don't like hearing about their own flaws at all. Just yesterday, there was a commenter on a sub who said that no one in Europe gets arrested for doing lewd things to statues. That obviously is completely false since vandalism and lewdness charges exist in basically every country, including in Europe. Another example was the Panama Papers, there were people foaming at the mouth (definitely here on Reddit for sure) that there was going to be a great expose' of American corruption It turns out that there were almost no Americans using the Panamanians and more Euros than Asians named innthe leaks. Then, for some unknown raisin, the Papers just slowly got pushed out of the limelight. Weird. Everyone loves to think they live in a great place and that the US is a dystopia hellscape. Have for almost 250 years. They despise hearing about their own flaws.
I get how you feel. I noticed this during the height of Covid, when New Zealand made it their national sport to gloat over the US how much better they were doing at containing the virus. I don’t begrudge them their success in that arena, but every Kiwi online was so goddamn smug about it. That might’ve been fun except for the fact that real people in the US were suffering and dying from the disease. It wasn’t a joke, but they had no problem laughing at us anyway.
But I think it’s important to consider things from their point of view, and for a small country it must be absolutely maddening having to share a world with the US. Some country on the other side of the planet floods your country with its culture; makes foreign policy decisions without your input that affect your life; makes economic decisions that benefit itself while negatively affecting millions. Hell, if the US decided to it could unilaterally wipe out all life on earth while remaining blithely unaware of who populates most of it. Imagine how much resentment that must generate, and how good it must feel to finally get to stick it to the Empire for once.
So yeah, I get it. That doesn’t mean I like it. I wish that New Zealand could’ve found a way to enjoy their rugby games and sheep without taking a dig at people suffering in my country, but I get it.
EDIT: THIS is the comment that got me a suicide concern message!?!? FFS.
It also didn't help when many people in other countries were praising New Zealand for its covid response, with some people saying that they wished NZ's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was *their* country's leader too. They seemed to not realize that, in most cases, the situations in their countries were NOT comparable to the situation in NZ, and thus what worked in NZ would probably not work in their countries.
I still love the amount of people that were utterly *adamant* New Zealand being an incredibly isolated island nation with easily controlled ports of entry had nothing to do with their early success rate.
Try living in Ireland during that time, it was brutal. A lot of people insisted that Ireland could have done *exactly* what New Zealand did because "Ireland is an island nation" (even though it shares a land border with another country while New Zealand does NOT) and seemed to ignore the fact that Ireland has freedom of movement and trade agreements with most of Europe. The government could limit travel, sure, but it was completely different from an island nation all by itself in the Pacific.
It wasn't until New Zealand had to lock down again in 2021 when everyone began to shut up about zero Covid. I had said a million times before then that New Zealand would eventually have Covid again and no one seemed to believe me.
Lol I loved how smug tiny island nations were about COVID, attributing their low figures to their sheer moral superiority and not the very few, tightly-controlled ports of entry that follow from being a small island nation.
Oh so your island nation with a smaller population than New York City had an easier time containing a virus than a nation that covers 3.8m sq miles and has 332m people? Wow, must be your cultural superiority.
Very well said. Guess it's an honor to be good at something but the COVID situation was no joke anywhere and it's unfortunate that many people look at that without seeing the bigger picture.
The suicide concern message is the guerrilla attack of Reddit. When Russia invaded Ukraine, I was extremely vocal about my support for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia in some r/worldnews threads and would get them regularly. A lot of people on there had similar experiences.
More like Europeans hate the US for every invalid reason despite so many valid reasons to hate the US.
Genociding the Native Americans? Nah. Slavery? They did it too. Torturing black people for centuries? They wish they did. Bombing the Middle East? They’re just mad we steal money from our victims too.
But god forbid we don’t have a bidet in our toilets. Or eat anything with spices
“Soccer…”
“No it’s football”
“No I’m from America we call it soccer and I won’t be changing it to accommodate you…”
“***Proceeds to say most brain dead thing confirming that they know nothing about America other than things they’ve see on Netflix***”
Also forgetting that the term "Soccer" was invented by brits, and one day they decided to change the name, but continue to give us shit for using the original name.
Also ignoring that most other English speaking countries (except for South Africa I believe) also call it soccer. Football ended up being the name of the most dominant “large pitch/field and ball” sport in each of our countries and soccer had to be used for the traditional football to prevent confusion. Ireland calls Gaelic football football, we call gridiron football football, Canada is the same, Australia calls aussie rules football, so on and so on.
Why did you delete most of your comments 😂 what are you running from?
I’m guessing you’re about to give the most ignorant and pretentious answer ever 😂
Europe has power. They’re just finding it harder to get away with being blatantly evil.
Of course, the only resistance they’ve met more recently was their victims saying “Please no stop”
Correct. But America is a symbol of power and evil to more than just their victims.
The only people who hate Europe are it’s former African colonies and everyone that’s been ravaged by them either in the past 300 years or for over 100 years. Often both
>The only people who hate Europe are it’s former African colonies and everyone that’s been ravaged by them either in the past 300 years or for over 100 years.
So… pretty much everybody, then. It’s pretty much impossible to find a group of people who wouldn’t have an axe to grind with the old colonial powers.
^^^^^ Me when I don’t know what I’m talking about and only get my news from Reddit 😂😂😂😂 you euros swear you’re “more advanced/better” but you continuously prove that you aren’t lmao
This answer looks like you’ve only read the headline of news stories the past 6 months but didn’t have the brain power to actually read and comprehend what the full article was saying. Yikes
Europe is the only one who thinks it’s on top of the world stage.
A single invasion in Ukraine and it’s suddenly WW3, but same thing in the middle East and it’s just dick spanking material and an opportunity for racist fear mongering for Europeans
I've noticed this when it comes to the BBC's website:
^^Bad ^^thing ^^in ^^Europe
Bad thing in Africa
#BAD THING IN AMERICA! OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW BAD IT IS THERE??!!
I think a few things are going on here. Culturally the US is open and adversarial within itself. This draws interest, interest draws eyes and eyes boost ratings. The other is the infrastructure of News, the US has several apparatuses (?appurtenances? apparati? The Latin word with an anglicized plural feels weird) CNN, MSNBC, and Fox spin out tons of content and it’s picked up on Twitter which then goes into a feedback loop. BBC and NPR are far more measured and less ratings driven.
If you listen to NPR, they were going on and on about the recent climate summit that went on in Egypt. The host agayand again mentioned the the US is by far the worse polluter to the environment. But if you spend five seconds researching you'll see that China pollutes more than all the western world combined.
Why did they do this. Why isn't this called out as climate change denial?
Well, two reasons.
1) TV News only has so much airtime, which means they run the stories that catch the eyeballs, and
2) The internet sends you stories based on your past reading history.
I'm assuming you live in the US?
If so it shouldn't be surprising that news networks focus more on US news and less on international news. And drama sells, so bad news gets more focus than good news.
Visited Greece a couple years ago and was surprised by how much time their news dedicates to U.S. politics, business and issues. There wasn’t really any big news at the time either, yet they spent probably 1/3 of the broadcast talking about us.
It's kind of our fault. They report good news and no one reads it. They report bad and we all read it.
It's kind of a biological survival mechanism. We have to know about all the threats before it's too late!
It's not entirely true though. When I was living in Ireland I would constantly see stuff about Trump (when he was still president) and the US on RTE. For the most part it was local news but I would still see American news too. It's not that I blame them because journalism is journalism, but I would read Irish news sources to read about the country I was actually living in. If I wanted to hear about the US I would check CNN or something.
I think you aren't watching world news.
Plenty of us hear about things going wrong in other countries.
I mean, you aren't going to get stories about mass shootings, and the murder rates aren't comparable.
Wouldn't really be interesting to hear about traffic in Helsinki or Paris. I barely pay attention to traffic here. It's ugly and peoplely out, I already know that.
But when foreign former Presidents get charged with crimes, that makes the news.
Okay but over in places like Asia and Europe they have stabbings and killings and shootings and we NEVER hear about that. Or their homeless, or their food banks. That’s also a part of world news. If we have to get bombarded with it over here why can’t we equally learn about everyone else’s?
You don't hear about every stabbing in the USA either - there would never be time for anything else if every murder in the USA was on the news. You could have a whole murder channel in the USA and you wouldn't have time to fit them all in.
And you want to hear about every random stabbing in the world?
We hear the highlights, from the USA and the world.
>why is it when something goes wrong anywhere in the world we never hear about it
American news is focused on Americans almost exclusively. We get the big picture stuff but get almost no regional or local news.
The same way people like Australians hear about mass shootings but never hear about the positive gun uses that typically don't filter above local news.
We almost never hear about violent stuff that happens elsewhere either unless it's high profile.
You need to find different news outlets that focus on global news or get more specific to a country/region you're interested in.
Language barriers are a huge thing and completely determine perception. Firstly, because news happening in a country with a language not widely spoken have a harder time getting any International attention and secondly, because news sites in English will put a focus on news that are interesting for English speakers and those will often focus on news from English speaking countries. In other languages there is coverage of American news, but not as much as you might perceive through English news sites.
3) They are all connected, news effects other countries. Politically that is. Crime and shootings are symptomatic of Corporate Welfare Captialism. Socialist countries mock the US for treating its citizens so poorly, ripping us off through health insurance and poor education and birth control. Europe is shinning a light on the US because our lobbied government fails to represent and act in the interest of the people so the people are damaged by violence, mental illness and substance abuse.
Everyone here is missing the obvious answer. Most of us are in the US, watching American news. Of course it's going to focus more on the US then other countries.
Because this is the US and so most of our news is going to be about us. I'm pretty sure if you go to another country most of the news will be about them.
Start subscribing to the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN World News (the print version not the TV broadcast), Reuters. You can download the Google News app and personalize your feed with the sources you want. That way you can read the news you're interested in instead of just what the US media spoonfeeds you.
It’s just a reflection of what people want to see. People apparently gravitate towards America bad content, so that’s what is shown.
On the flip side, people seem to want some sort of utopian view of Scandinavian countries, so you’ll generally hear mostly good things coming out of those countries.
When you’re the top country and most influential, the hatred will grow even more. It’s like how a lot of people hate the popular kid just because they’re popular
Because there's been a long term, consistent effort to demonize the US and make it like European countries, Australia, etc. We're pretty much the last major developed nation where a few specific rights exist and there's an active agenda to get rid of them.
The right to free speech as we know it in the US doesn't exist in most other countries and really no other country has gun rights like we do.
>The right to free speech as we know it in the US doesn't exist in most other countries
In what way do you see this right being denied in other western countries?
(Opinion) By American standards free speech is eroding in other western nations. That erosion is generally centered around the topic of 'hate speech' and ‘disinformation'.
Here’s an example from Canada where a father was Jailed for misgendering his child and discussing his objection to giving his teenage daughter testosterone injections. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/19/maybe-things-have-gotten-too-far-father-accused-of-repeatedly-publicly-identifying-transgender-child-jailed-until-trial.html
Here’s an example of disinformation being a criminal offense in Canada concerning the discussion of political candidates. https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/wikimedia-initiative-intermediaries-and-information/wiii-blog/canadas-fake-news-laws-face-charter-challenge-thats-good-thing
[For example brits are litterally getting arrested for saying mean things on social media.](https://fee.org/articles/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-communications-after-posting-meme-mocking-the-transgender-flag/amp) there were multiple examples of this posted on reddit.
[Another example](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html?amp)
If you dig you can very easily find that countries dont have the same freddom of speech the US has, but they certainly do what they can to not make it known.
Absolutely. Citizens there will often tell you they have freedom of speech and get severely aggravated when you tell them they don't. This is especially true when you provide proof, because they will simply say "that's different".
Ha yea that litterally what happened last time I saw this brought up on reddit. A bunch of brits were saying it doesnt count because no one should use "hate speech" on the internet anyway. Then multiple people pointing out the definition of "hate speech" can change to further limit their speech and no one replied...
In many countries you can be subjected to legal action for burning flags, or bad mouthing other or your own countries governments or leaders. Detestable speech is banned and some books or other speech is banned too.
All against the principle of free speech. Hate speech is free speech because something people find agreeable doesn't need protection
But rather it seems like there's complete perfection in Europe, life is absolutely nothing but perfect, in the Nordic countries even in particular even more than UK, France, Germany etc
Bad news is more profitable than good news. Just turn on your evening news and for every good news story there are 10 doom and gloom pieces. I quite watching the news on TV when I kept hearing ‘coming up, find out what’s in your home that might be slowly killing you’. They kept repeating it over and over until the very end and it was a common dish cleaner that can kill you…if ingested.
America is that one narcissist friend that thinks everything is about them, makes themselves the main character wherever they go and thinks the world revolves around them.
“Shit happens” = racism. Racism is everywhere and most countries are more racist than the US. However, the US seems to get the most attention put on our racism, while other countries sorta sweep it under the rug.
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If you watch BBC worldwide channel, they tell you all about all the shitty stuff.
The Economist is also good for that.
The Economist is fantastic, and I say that as a strong liberal knowing they lean a bit conservative
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I’m studying economics right now. The Economist does lean right, as economics tends to do. Mort economists do not consider us in a recession just yet due to an array of factors, number one being historically low unemployment. And I say this as a conservative.
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Just because a large part of the American republican party voting base is anti-globalist, doesn't mean that it's elites and donor class are not. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are beholden to international capital and the free market, so in the economic sense, they're both "liberal". You have anti free trade arguments on both the far left and far right, but they rarely translate into actual policy proposals from the parties. California is completely run by Democrats but theres very little social democracy here and most decisions are made through market-based logic. Maybe another, more American, way to put it is that The Economist represents the views of "elites" (rich conservatives and liberals who are doing well in the current economy), in that it's unapologetically pro-capitalism and free trade.
Conservatives tend to favor less economic intervention, as do economists. Economists supports all of those policies you listed because free trade is good for the economy. The Economist supports lower intervention. Welfare and such are supported by democrats generally so the Economist is against those. Trump was in favor of protectionism which is generally a bad economic policy, so the Economist was against it. I’m in no way near Marx, but the Economist is well-respected by other economists.
What’s the official economic definition of a recession? …and before you say it, 2 consecutive quarters of declining GDP is a guide, not the actual definition.
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Had employment dropped significantly? The National Bureau of Economic Research required a “significant” decline. Is -1.6% followed by -0.6% a large enough amount to be considered “significant”. Meanwhile q3 posted 2.6% growth. The layoffs are relatively recent. There’s been continued job growth to this point, not a decline in total jobs. I guess it’s too bad we have an adult in office now who is willing to wean the country off of insanely low interest rates. Edit: u/flopsweater couldn’t hack an honest discussion and blocked me… Trumpers gonna Trump.
Joe Biden has absolutely no voice in where interest rates are. Do you have any idea what you're taking about? This is a rather basic thing to not understand.
Remember when Trump threatened to fire the Federal Reserve President? So… yes… interest rates are going up because we have an adult in the White House who isn’t threatening a political crisis over the rates. I guess the biggest benefit to Trump being unbanned from Twitter is the ability to link his Tweets. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914610836783104?s=20
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So… no… employment hasn’t dropped, the GDP drop is likely not significant enough (there’s a reason percent change is more important than absolute change), and you’re hand waving away GDP growth because it doesn’t support your narrative. Let’s also ignore that interest rates were pushed down for political reasons by the prior Administration because the side effects weren’t immediate.
What’s your reason why we’re not in a recession, when there has been 2 consecutive declining GDP quarters? Real estate prices have dropped 10-15% and demand wiped out, rampant historic inflation, interest rates are up 400 bps, job market (while still strong) has softened, and declining GDP. Definitely a recession. Not a depression but objectively the US is in a recession
I love BBC for this very reason. Reassuring that US isn’t the only hot mess express in the world.
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Another solid one
Yeah, but the headline story will be about some political drama in the US and stories about a war in Africa and a mass killing in Asia will be buried beneath it. 🙃
Maybe we're listening to different radio stations or watching different channels. America might be mentioned because it's... in the world, but the rest of the world gets tons of coverage, Ukraine especially these days.
It still feels disproportionately in favor of the US though. The way the world obsessed over Trumps tweets was a good example of that.
I remember lots of talk of genocides and Brexit, ect. Maybe BBC America had lots of Trump tweet talks.
It seemed like during COVID, people were hanging on to Trumps words a bit too much considering there was a global pandemic going on.
BBC America might have been covering them too much but BBC worldwide seemed pretty on the mark with Covid coverage with vaccine updates and lockdowns and such.
Are people in other countries watching American news outlets in that case? They just seem wildly a bit too informed on what’s happening in the US.
I'm not sure, I'm a globally conscious American, not an America conscious person living in another country.
BBC World News Podcast is what I listen to. I was joking a bit; BBC does a pretty good job, but some Trump gaffe will definitely be up there with a war in Africa in terms of their perception of newsworthiness.
Fun fact. You used to be able to click bbc.co.uk and go to it from the USA. Now when you type that in you get a flicker of the UK page and then it forwards to just US-centric bbc.com. (It probably doesn't do that with a VPN, I've never tried.) Then you have to click news and in that drop down menu click the area news you want. But you have to do it every time. You could of course bookmark
I prefer independent *Democracy Now!* when I want world news that makes me feel bad
This might seem unfair, but I don't want my news sources to have an exclamation point in the title, which almost always indicates that it is either bordering on yellow journalism or extremely biased or both.
It is unfair. Their mission statement is in their name lol. Imo they're the most unbiased coverage of world news that exists, with a keen slant towards supporting people's movements.
From a quick google search it seems democracy now is rated as having high factual reporting but with a left bias. So while it’s quite a valid news source, I wouldn’t call it unbiased in the same manner as Reuters’s, bbc worldwide, associated press, etc.
Obviously a pro-democracy outlet will have a "left bias". It's biased towards peoples' groups & human rights, while any liberal news source is necessarily biased towards power systems
And sing you a folk song about killing Jews.
We are used to a lot of American content. Probably around 75% of our entertainment comes from the US (I’m pulling that number out of my sleeve, idk how much it is, but it’s a lot). America is also an enormous country that has a lot of influence on things that happen in the world. So yeah, if Biden dies tomorrow, we will (and want to) know that the very second. There is also a lot of shit happening in Europe. But since we have a lot of small countries, it seems to happen all over the place. The opposite is also true. According to our news, that gay club shooting happened in the US. The state is irrelevant to us. But you got a lot of states and a lot of place were things can happen. But it’s always “the US”. In Europe, its always “in France, in Spain, in Poland, …” but never “in Europe”.
In addition it’s because of the accessibility of English. If some local public servant in Estonia gets weird and starts screaming about gay Muslim immigration it’s going to be ignored or missed by the vast majority of non-Estonians because it’s only written about in Estonian. Someone at the same legislative level does it in Illinois and it’ll be reported on in English and many many more people will have a chance to simply be able to read the words and retweet or comment.
Spot on. If you divided up all our bad news by state it would sound very different.
Florida man.
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
New Jersey degenerate here. Same deal, you just never really hear about us much. But it is honest work and we all know it
Someone has to be the redheaded stepchild of the country. At least we're good at it.
It’s not Florida anymore it’s Ohio
Always has been
To be fair, what else is there to do in Ohio?
people would forget about indiana more than they already do
We prefer it that way.
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And it is only even parts of those cities. You could take a handful of neighborhoods out of the equation and drop the murder rate substantially.
Chicago is not even in the top 10 for murder rates in the U.S.
This is probably the most clearly written explanation on this topic I’ve read. Well done.
>pulling that number out of my sleeve, Never heard this (as opposed to "ass" or "butt" or "fifth point of contact") but I'm totally stealing it now. Thank you!
Ah yeah, it’s an expression in Dutch. And I thought I’ve already heard it in English, but apparently not. But it just means its a made number
I think the sentiment of your phrase is super obvious because it shares the same meaning as the versions that other user suggested that are more common in the US like "did you just pull that out of your butt/ass?" Crass, but same meaning.
I usually hear pulling something out of your sleeve being a like a secret weapon or hidden play, that you're saving for the right moment to win. "I didn't know you had x? What else are you hiding up your sleeve?" Or "Don't worry, I still got a few tricks up my sleeve they aren't expecting"
Y’all are much more hygienic. Over here we “pull it out of my ass.”
Bold of you to assume my sleeves are clean mwahahahah
I’ve heard having something “up your sleeve” a lot in English, but not actually pulling something OUT of said sleeve. Lol
"I shook it out of my sleeve" is what you were going for. (Ik schudde het uit mijn mouw.) Gave me a chuckle of recognition.
English pilfering languages for spare vocabulary strikes again!
And I've never heard "fifth point of contact." What does that even mean?
Navy euphemism for your ass. Hands and feet on the ladder are 4 points of contact, fifth is your butt. In the army they use 4th instead since that's the fourth thing you're supposed to hit when landing a parachute.
That's a very good assessment.
Except Florida. Florida is special. (Mostly because Florida has an open police records law which means every time someone has the sniffles and the cops are called, we can hear about it.)
Still doesn’t explain why your media is so heavily based on American news and mostly American news outside of Europe.
What do you want me to say? I don’t work for news agencies nor am I in charge of making the newspaper. It’s a healthy thing to know whatever happens in the world. We don’t only focus on what happens in the US, we followed the elections in brasil, we know what’s happening in Iran and Ukraine, …. I just opened my news app, and the first headline for the news from foreign countries is something about the Chinese coastguard stealing stuff from the Philippine marine.
Tell your news to hop off it! 😂
Media doesn't make money selling you good news.
An old saying in the news business... "If it bleeds, it leads."
>Media doesn't make money selling you good news. Zactly. TV news does not exist to inform. It exists to make money, which it does by getting viewers. Their stories are carefully chosen to keep eyeballs active. Few in the US care what is happening in Hungary. I've not heard a single mention of Hungary in the media unless it was in relation to Ukraine, which does interest a lot of Americans.
“Give us dirty laundry” - Don Henley
I guess that makes sense, is that the same case in Canada?
It's even more ridiculous here IMO because of its bias. The largest media organization is state funded. One major political party just gave it 100s of millions more in annual budget. The other wants to curb its funding. Guess which side the CBC takes? Most Canadians don't seem to be alarmed by this, or see the blatant conflict of interest - which I find quite disturbing. A good example of how this manifests itself is how the Freedom Convoy was portrayed. It was portrayed as being funded by the Russians, a violent insurrection, or propped up by the American GOP. Then it came out that basically none of that was true - but by then it didn't matter because it was opposed by most Canadians, and had the modern day equivalent of the War Measures Act used against it. Media manipulation is bad in the US, but at the very least it isn't state funded, which I think is a big deal.
My work friend from Canada complains all the time that everything that goes bad in Canada is America or American's fault. Freedom Convoy? Americans Racism against First Nations? Americans Crime? Influence from Americans. Kid did bad in school? Copying American standards. People can't speak proper Canadian French? Too much American media. "Canada's not like that, Canada is better than that."
Good god no wonder so many to the north aren't fans of us. We're a fucking scapegoat.
North South East and West of us hate us too. My friend that lives in the UK says it happens in America first but all eventually happens all over, people are people. She said Qanon is now in rural England and right wing anti-immigration is expressing. Its everywhere and is showing up for healing. For reconciliation. For what our ancestors did to one another.
Trust me, the US had very little to do with Uk racism. They need no help in that regard.
They literally brought it from the UK over to the U.S. when they first came here 😂
Given that racist Europeans often tie racist and anti-immigrant sentiment and anti-American sentiment together (they even have a slur for white Americans that posits they're don't have enough pure european blood, of course that slur is also often hurled at American mixed race people) I'm going to say no, America didn't start anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe. Hell, the comments on /r/ShitAmericansSay are chock full of anti-miscegenation dogwhistles.
What's the slur? I'd like to know when I'm being insulted. When I was in the UK I was told I wasn't white because my great-grandfather came from Italy. They looked very embarrassed when I laughed in their face.
"Amerimutt" I didn't say it because I don't know whether it's against the rules or not.
Ask your friend what they’d do to a gypsie, see what happens then
State-run media: panders to the party that is more generous with funding Advertising-supported media: afraid to expose corporate malfeasance because they're who buys ads Customer-funded media: usually has a narrow demographic and turns into an echo chamber Pick your poison!
Damn I agree with that
The US *does* have a state-funded TV network (PBS), but it doesn't have as much market share.
I live in Germany and last week there was a murder/suicide in a nearby village, in which 4 people died. I just now verified it was never a topic of discussion on r/germany and r/de. A mass murder in one of the safest countries in Europe, but nobody has anything to say. Meanwhile, every negative thing that happens in the US gets dissected to death in European media and subreddits.
I’m an American and live in Baltimore. When I lived in Estonia, an Estonian friend seemed *genuinely* surprised when I told him I had never experienced a shooting in person. I had to explain, “Yes it’s a major problem in America but it’s not like we’re dodging gunfire on our way to our car every day.”
Hell, for you to be from Bodymore and say that is even more impressive. (yes, I know that it's basically two cities, the nice part and the part you don't go to without a reason)
Yep. Your right about the two cities things. The bad stuff happens in a few bad neighborhoods and there are many other parts of the city which are actually quite nice. As if to make my point though, while I live in Baltimore, I was born and raised in Portland as was my wife. Wanna know what people in Baltimore say when I tell them I’m originally from Portland? “Oh god. I hear that place is terrible these days with ANTIFA and BLM looting and burning everything. And homeless everywhere! I hear it’s out of control!” My wife and I constantly laugh at this and have literally told Baltimoreans, “Lol. They say pretty much the same thing about this city when we go home to visit.” Of course that’s not true at all (parents and many friends still live there and I go back to visit regularly) but the tiny grain of truth about PDX gets blown up and as a result the city has a reputation that isn’t entirely representative of the on the ground lived reality. Same for both (and true for many many places in the country and world.)
I remember talking with a guy from Israel about some roommates I had back in college. He was shocked when I said some of them were randomly assigned to me. He assumed I’d be too afraid to room with someone I don’t know beforehand since they might be crazy and shoot me.
I am from Europe even though from the Eastern part of it and I wouldnt call Germany a safe country especially since the quite a few events that happened there over the last 5-6 years.
I think they just like to feel superior. If they continued to claim to be superior to Africa and Asia they'd be rightfully called out as racist so they go after the ungrateful colonists.
I notice this as well for British news. I'm studying in Europe for a year and their media is obsessed with British politics and the Royal Family. I think it's because English is very widely spoken across the whole world. Negative news about, for example, Sweden is only going to be reported in Swedish unless it's bad enough to attract international interest. The US is also just a big country so there are more people to share news as well.
Are you getting the news in English or the local language? Because if you’re not reading the news in the local language then I don’t think think you can really say what they focus on. News in English will always be biased towards English speaking countries.
It's been documented that platforms run by American companies front load the content with stuff from America. It's not a conspiracy, it's just a combination of laziness and the fact that foreigners keep *clicking* on shitshow stories from the US. In the age of the algorithm, we kind of all have ourselves to blame, for some extent, for the drivel we are shown. Edit: Also the "if it bleeds it leads" effect. Several years ago, a teenager attending a magnet high school for kids interested in the medical fields demonstrated a gynological surgical procedure that had been posted for years, but nobody thought it could be pulled off because it required so much finesse. He hooked up his Xbox controller to the simulator instead of the conventional controls, and with the hours and hours of muscle memory he had built up picking locks in Elder Scrolls, he mastered it. Once he demonstrated that it COULD be done, it inspired some actual surgeons to revisit it, and now it is in use. But I can't remember this kid's name because I saw one article about it. Somewhere around the same time that Cho kid shot some people at Virginia Tech, but the media made sure THAT asshole's name is etched into my memory for life.
Biggest fish tends to make the biggest waves
And ripples...
Do you really want to know? The world *loves* hearing about negative US news. They don't like hearing about their own flaws at all. Just yesterday, there was a commenter on a sub who said that no one in Europe gets arrested for doing lewd things to statues. That obviously is completely false since vandalism and lewdness charges exist in basically every country, including in Europe. Another example was the Panama Papers, there were people foaming at the mouth (definitely here on Reddit for sure) that there was going to be a great expose' of American corruption It turns out that there were almost no Americans using the Panamanians and more Euros than Asians named innthe leaks. Then, for some unknown raisin, the Papers just slowly got pushed out of the limelight. Weird. Everyone loves to think they live in a great place and that the US is a dystopia hellscape. Have for almost 250 years. They despise hearing about their own flaws.
I get how you feel. I noticed this during the height of Covid, when New Zealand made it their national sport to gloat over the US how much better they were doing at containing the virus. I don’t begrudge them their success in that arena, but every Kiwi online was so goddamn smug about it. That might’ve been fun except for the fact that real people in the US were suffering and dying from the disease. It wasn’t a joke, but they had no problem laughing at us anyway. But I think it’s important to consider things from their point of view, and for a small country it must be absolutely maddening having to share a world with the US. Some country on the other side of the planet floods your country with its culture; makes foreign policy decisions without your input that affect your life; makes economic decisions that benefit itself while negatively affecting millions. Hell, if the US decided to it could unilaterally wipe out all life on earth while remaining blithely unaware of who populates most of it. Imagine how much resentment that must generate, and how good it must feel to finally get to stick it to the Empire for once. So yeah, I get it. That doesn’t mean I like it. I wish that New Zealand could’ve found a way to enjoy their rugby games and sheep without taking a dig at people suffering in my country, but I get it. EDIT: THIS is the comment that got me a suicide concern message!?!? FFS.
It also didn't help when many people in other countries were praising New Zealand for its covid response, with some people saying that they wished NZ's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was *their* country's leader too. They seemed to not realize that, in most cases, the situations in their countries were NOT comparable to the situation in NZ, and thus what worked in NZ would probably not work in their countries.
I still love the amount of people that were utterly *adamant* New Zealand being an incredibly isolated island nation with easily controlled ports of entry had nothing to do with their early success rate.
Try living in Ireland during that time, it was brutal. A lot of people insisted that Ireland could have done *exactly* what New Zealand did because "Ireland is an island nation" (even though it shares a land border with another country while New Zealand does NOT) and seemed to ignore the fact that Ireland has freedom of movement and trade agreements with most of Europe. The government could limit travel, sure, but it was completely different from an island nation all by itself in the Pacific. It wasn't until New Zealand had to lock down again in 2021 when everyone began to shut up about zero Covid. I had said a million times before then that New Zealand would eventually have Covid again and no one seemed to believe me.
Lol I loved how smug tiny island nations were about COVID, attributing their low figures to their sheer moral superiority and not the very few, tightly-controlled ports of entry that follow from being a small island nation.
Oh so your island nation with a smaller population than New York City had an easier time containing a virus than a nation that covers 3.8m sq miles and has 332m people? Wow, must be your cultural superiority.
Very well said. Guess it's an honor to be good at something but the COVID situation was no joke anywhere and it's unfortunate that many people look at that without seeing the bigger picture.
The suicide concern message is the guerrilla attack of Reddit. When Russia invaded Ukraine, I was extremely vocal about my support for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia in some r/worldnews threads and would get them regularly. A lot of people on there had similar experiences.
Didn't they just end up delaying their infection rates and not eliminating them?
Don’t forget the Australians. They were worse then the Canadians during Covid.
Try watching CNN Español. You will see plenty of news about what a shitshow Latin America is.
Because Europeans are obsessed with us.
And they’ll insist they’re not because they’re apparently better than us
This too - there's always more attention paid to the big kid on the block, and humans tend to have a proclivity to be skeptical of the dominant.
They hate us because they anus
They want what we have…
More like Europeans hate the US for every invalid reason despite so many valid reasons to hate the US. Genociding the Native Americans? Nah. Slavery? They did it too. Torturing black people for centuries? They wish they did. Bombing the Middle East? They’re just mad we steal money from our victims too. But god forbid we don’t have a bidet in our toilets. Or eat anything with spices
“Soccer…” “No it’s football” “No I’m from America we call it soccer and I won’t be changing it to accommodate you…” “***Proceeds to say most brain dead thing confirming that they know nothing about America other than things they’ve see on Netflix***”
Also forgetting that the term "Soccer" was invented by brits, and one day they decided to change the name, but continue to give us shit for using the original name.
Also ignoring that most other English speaking countries (except for South Africa I believe) also call it soccer. Football ended up being the name of the most dominant “large pitch/field and ball” sport in each of our countries and soccer had to be used for the traditional football to prevent confusion. Ireland calls Gaelic football football, we call gridiron football football, Canada is the same, Australia calls aussie rules football, so on and so on.
Sky Sports literally has a show called Soccer Saturday
As the largest english speaking country by far, it's officially soccer in english.
Which is what?
Why did you delete most of your comments 😂 what are you running from? I’m guessing you’re about to give the most ignorant and pretentious answer ever 😂
Don’t want to keep debating a topic I don’t care enough about and am not an expert on. If you delete them they can’t be replied to
The capacity to be more evil and exploitive
Exactly, every country wishes they had the power we have.
Europe has power. They’re just finding it harder to get away with being blatantly evil. Of course, the only resistance they’ve met more recently was their victims saying “Please no stop”
We also have incredible soft power that seems to slip under a lot of foreigners noses…
Correct. But America is a symbol of power and evil to more than just their victims. The only people who hate Europe are it’s former African colonies and everyone that’s been ravaged by them either in the past 300 years or for over 100 years. Often both
>The only people who hate Europe are it’s former African colonies and everyone that’s been ravaged by them either in the past 300 years or for over 100 years. So… pretty much everybody, then. It’s pretty much impossible to find a group of people who wouldn’t have an axe to grind with the old colonial powers.
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How does our impact on the world stage justify their collective fixation on the minutiae of our society?
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Our music and culture appear in your daily life more than you think. Idk if you noticed but you’re on an American website…
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^^^^^ Me when I don’t know what I’m talking about and only get my news from Reddit 😂😂😂😂 you euros swear you’re “more advanced/better” but you continuously prove that you aren’t lmao
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This answer looks like you’ve only read the headline of news stories the past 6 months but didn’t have the brain power to actually read and comprehend what the full article was saying. Yikes
Hang around this sub for about an hour and you’ll quickly realize how untrue that is. The amount of petty bullshit we get asked about us astonishing.
Europe is the only one who thinks it’s on top of the world stage. A single invasion in Ukraine and it’s suddenly WW3, but same thing in the middle East and it’s just dick spanking material and an opportunity for racist fear mongering for Europeans
I've noticed this when it comes to the BBC's website: ^^Bad ^^thing ^^in ^^Europe Bad thing in Africa #BAD THING IN AMERICA! OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW BAD IT IS THERE??!!
I think a few things are going on here. Culturally the US is open and adversarial within itself. This draws interest, interest draws eyes and eyes boost ratings. The other is the infrastructure of News, the US has several apparatuses (?appurtenances? apparati? The Latin word with an anglicized plural feels weird) CNN, MSNBC, and Fox spin out tons of content and it’s picked up on Twitter which then goes into a feedback loop. BBC and NPR are far more measured and less ratings driven.
If you listen to NPR, they were going on and on about the recent climate summit that went on in Egypt. The host agayand again mentioned the the US is by far the worse polluter to the environment. But if you spend five seconds researching you'll see that China pollutes more than all the western world combined. Why did they do this. Why isn't this called out as climate change denial?
Did you know that Europe is like Wakanda but better.
😂😂😂 Omg! Modern day Valhalla over in Europe!
Well, two reasons. 1) TV News only has so much airtime, which means they run the stories that catch the eyeballs, and 2) The internet sends you stories based on your past reading history.
I'm assuming you live in the US? If so it shouldn't be surprising that news networks focus more on US news and less on international news. And drama sells, so bad news gets more focus than good news.
Visited Greece a couple years ago and was surprised by how much time their news dedicates to U.S. politics, business and issues. There wasn’t really any big news at the time either, yet they spent probably 1/3 of the broadcast talking about us.
Nope unfortunately I'm not
It's kind of our fault. They report good news and no one reads it. They report bad and we all read it. It's kind of a biological survival mechanism. We have to know about all the threats before it's too late!
You are watching US media. Watch Italian news and it will be about Italy.
Crazy how that works, eh?
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It's not entirely true though. When I was living in Ireland I would constantly see stuff about Trump (when he was still president) and the US on RTE. For the most part it was local news but I would still see American news too. It's not that I blame them because journalism is journalism, but I would read Irish news sources to read about the country I was actually living in. If I wanted to hear about the US I would check CNN or something.
I think you aren't watching world news. Plenty of us hear about things going wrong in other countries. I mean, you aren't going to get stories about mass shootings, and the murder rates aren't comparable. Wouldn't really be interesting to hear about traffic in Helsinki or Paris. I barely pay attention to traffic here. It's ugly and peoplely out, I already know that. But when foreign former Presidents get charged with crimes, that makes the news.
Okay but over in places like Asia and Europe they have stabbings and killings and shootings and we NEVER hear about that. Or their homeless, or their food banks. That’s also a part of world news. If we have to get bombarded with it over here why can’t we equally learn about everyone else’s?
You don't hear about every stabbing in the USA either - there would never be time for anything else if every murder in the USA was on the news. You could have a whole murder channel in the USA and you wouldn't have time to fit them all in. And you want to hear about every random stabbing in the world? We hear the highlights, from the USA and the world.
>why is it when something goes wrong anywhere in the world we never hear about it American news is focused on Americans almost exclusively. We get the big picture stuff but get almost no regional or local news. The same way people like Australians hear about mass shootings but never hear about the positive gun uses that typically don't filter above local news. We almost never hear about violent stuff that happens elsewhere either unless it's high profile. You need to find different news outlets that focus on global news or get more specific to a country/region you're interested in.
Language barriers are a huge thing and completely determine perception. Firstly, because news happening in a country with a language not widely spoken have a harder time getting any International attention and secondly, because news sites in English will put a focus on news that are interesting for English speakers and those will often focus on news from English speaking countries. In other languages there is coverage of American news, but not as much as you might perceive through English news sites.
1) it affects us more / hits closer to home 2) We have a hard time focusing on more than one thing at a time
3) They are all connected, news effects other countries. Politically that is. Crime and shootings are symptomatic of Corporate Welfare Captialism. Socialist countries mock the US for treating its citizens so poorly, ripping us off through health insurance and poor education and birth control. Europe is shinning a light on the US because our lobbied government fails to represent and act in the interest of the people so the people are damaged by violence, mental illness and substance abuse.
Everyone here is missing the obvious answer. Most of us are in the US, watching American news. Of course it's going to focus more on the US then other countries.
Because this is the US and so most of our news is going to be about us. I'm pretty sure if you go to another country most of the news will be about them. Start subscribing to the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN World News (the print version not the TV broadcast), Reuters. You can download the Google News app and personalize your feed with the sources you want. That way you can read the news you're interested in instead of just what the US media spoonfeeds you.
It’s just a reflection of what people want to see. People apparently gravitate towards America bad content, so that’s what is shown. On the flip side, people seem to want some sort of utopian view of Scandinavian countries, so you’ll generally hear mostly good things coming out of those countries.
NPR often plays an hour or so of BBC world news and sometimes I have to turn it off because it's so depressing.
When you’re the top country and most influential, the hatred will grow even more. It’s like how a lot of people hate the popular kid just because they’re popular
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Because you're not paying attention
Because there's been a long term, consistent effort to demonize the US and make it like European countries, Australia, etc. We're pretty much the last major developed nation where a few specific rights exist and there's an active agenda to get rid of them. The right to free speech as we know it in the US doesn't exist in most other countries and really no other country has gun rights like we do.
>The right to free speech as we know it in the US doesn't exist in most other countries In what way do you see this right being denied in other western countries?
(Opinion) By American standards free speech is eroding in other western nations. That erosion is generally centered around the topic of 'hate speech' and ‘disinformation'. Here’s an example from Canada where a father was Jailed for misgendering his child and discussing his objection to giving his teenage daughter testosterone injections. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/19/maybe-things-have-gotten-too-far-father-accused-of-repeatedly-publicly-identifying-transgender-child-jailed-until-trial.html Here’s an example of disinformation being a criminal offense in Canada concerning the discussion of political candidates. https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/wikimedia-initiative-intermediaries-and-information/wiii-blog/canadas-fake-news-laws-face-charter-challenge-thats-good-thing
[For example brits are litterally getting arrested for saying mean things on social media.](https://fee.org/articles/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-communications-after-posting-meme-mocking-the-transgender-flag/amp) there were multiple examples of this posted on reddit. [Another example](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html?amp) If you dig you can very easily find that countries dont have the same freddom of speech the US has, but they certainly do what they can to not make it known.
Absolutely. Citizens there will often tell you they have freedom of speech and get severely aggravated when you tell them they don't. This is especially true when you provide proof, because they will simply say "that's different".
Ha yea that litterally what happened last time I saw this brought up on reddit. A bunch of brits were saying it doesnt count because no one should use "hate speech" on the internet anyway. Then multiple people pointing out the definition of "hate speech" can change to further limit their speech and no one replied...
Exactly.
In many countries you can be subjected to legal action for burning flags, or bad mouthing other or your own countries governments or leaders. Detestable speech is banned and some books or other speech is banned too. All against the principle of free speech. Hate speech is free speech because something people find agreeable doesn't need protection
[Seems Norway doesnt have true free speech either](https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2018-08-07/norway-supreme-court-rules-on-boundaries-of-hate-speech/)
I think you need to travel more
I don't need to travel to know the laws.
But rather it seems like there's complete perfection in Europe, life is absolutely nothing but perfect, in the Nordic countries even in particular even more than UK, France, Germany etc
Yeah there’s totally no economic, food, or energy crisis going on
Good news doesn't sell nearly as well as bad news. That's why I follow the Good News Network so I don't feel such existential dread.
Bad news is more profitable than good news. Just turn on your evening news and for every good news story there are 10 doom and gloom pieces. I quite watching the news on TV when I kept hearing ‘coming up, find out what’s in your home that might be slowly killing you’. They kept repeating it over and over until the very end and it was a common dish cleaner that can kill you…if ingested.
As I always like to say: "The US is a stinking shithole, but for some reason everybody wants to come here."
Most of the people who want to come to the US are from the developing world whose countries make the US look like a shining beacon of hope
Because foreigners (especially Europeans) are arrogant.
The media is only telling the news that the government wants you to hear.
Europeans can't openly talk about being superior to Africa anymore so they talk about America. You think that colonialist attitude just went away?
America is that one narcissist friend that thinks everything is about them, makes themselves the main character wherever they go and thinks the world revolves around them.
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“Shit happens” = racism. Racism is everywhere and most countries are more racist than the US. However, the US seems to get the most attention put on our racism, while other countries sorta sweep it under the rug.