I have a confession to make: I am a person who goes to other news sources for news than the most common ones in the US. That’s not to say that many in the US don’t get at least some news from the BBC, I’m sure many do.
What struck me as remarkable was that the BBC has a few articles that cover the hoopla over the presidential debates that we are currently about to see between McCain and Obama. But the BBC goes further and has clippings from past presidential debates as well–just for common knowledge and for readers to get a better sense of how the debates can be revealing of the idiocy, tactlessness, or snobbery or some other unpleasing characteristic of the debator.
How come American media doesn’t do this? Should Americans know about their own country too–and it’s past? Why can’t CNN or Fox have something similar, so as to not assume that Americans are idiots?
Anyhow, the clips are short, but here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in taking a peek:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7633083.stm
