Watching Dateline London earlier today I was puzzled why they regularly have a correspondent from Le Monde and yet never seem to have anyone from Le Figaro.
Also, why this obsession throughout the media with the American mid-term elections? They will have little practical effect on us. Is it because British journalists want an excuse for an expenses-paid trans-Atlantic trip?
The American elections in 2008 saw virtually every senior journalist rushing over to America (including the entire panel of This Week, with the programme broadcast from a sort of bar or cafe where everyone seemed to be sitting on uncomfortable-looking stools).
Since we are constantly told globalisation is going to change everything (everything) presumably there should be reduced coverage of American affairs and more emphasis upon the BRIC countries. This Week and Newsnight and Channel 4 News should be doing extended live editions from Brasilia, New Delhi and Moscow during their respective elections. And also covering in depth the lack of elections in China.
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