An Event goes Unnoticed in America!

Well this is the not the first time this has happened nor will it be the last. However the visit by the highest elected official from the worlds largest democracy to the worlds oldest one went largely unnoticed by the American media.

I always find it amazing about how localized the media coverage is in America. Even though America was instrumental in the globalization of the economy, the American media are mostly unaffected by this. The news coverage on countries outside the United States is sparing at best. There has to be a explosion or a tsunami for the media to really report it and even then they do a poor job of this.

Even respected magazines like Newsweek have largely ignored this event. Instead I find articles on Raven (the kid who appeared on Cosby) and why she is not celebrity even though she is a star!!!

International coverage is highly biased. America still has a fascination with Britain. The coverage that a few years back when Lady Diana and Mother Teresa passed away was proof enough. Now with the terrorist attacks in London and Eygpt, the media coverage is highly biased. We had to listen to a hour by hour account on the happening in London, but the coverage on Eygpt was very sparse. I know it is probably difficult to get enough information from Eygpt than in London but isn't investigative journalism supposed to thrive in areas like Eygpt or has journalism lost its edge.

So coming back to the topic I started out on. The PM of India visited United States and the event went largely unnoticed. When Mr. Bush visits India later this year I wonder how the media coverage will be!

This large ignorance of the world by the American media and therefore the American public will I fear will play a large part in the eventual downfall of the American power. After all if the American public are not aware of the going on in the world outside then it is bound to take them by suprise (there is a reason why software jobs are headed to India and it is not all cost!)