Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900

Re:Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since ... by lordnacho on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:35AM (#18740958)

> Anyway, that also means the US doesn’t dominate as much as you might think.

Look at Berlingske today. There's a story about the US/China trade war that's brewing, there's a story about the US stock market going down, there's a story about the US government shutting down, and a story about a hypothetical US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

By contrast, there's an opinion piece about Ireland and Brexit. And there's story about Germany and China.

And it tends to be like this. All the other countries are there from time to time, but the USA is always there x3.

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Re:Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since ... by jaabe on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:07PM (#18741699)

The American government is in a budget crisis, even so, it’s not a major story in the printed version of Weekendavisen, Børsen or Information this weekend.

I’ll agree that the more populist papers, like Berlinske, are very US focused and so are a lot of the free internet news.

I was not trying to say that we aren’t US centric. The very first thing I wrote was literally that I agreed that we are, but the US hasn’t owned our news cycle every month of 2018, far from it. Obviously is an important part of our news cycle, but so is every G8 country, and in my social circles people follow those countries as closely as we follow the US.

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