Extra! Extra! Read all about - what?

America has no news. It has very few newspapers and it has very bad news channels. It is driving me mad. Admitedly Arkansas may be more out of the loop than say New York. Yet unless you especially order - you can only get local newspapers which have a dismal few pages of international news (which tends to focus on American actions overseas).

The newsagents on your street corner - doesn't exist. Instead they have these silly little slot machines on the side of the street which gives you access to only about 3 papers in the whole state.

These papers (which few people bother to read) simply talk about what's going on in their State. The news channels are terrible, their coverage of the New Orleans disaster consisted of human interest stories about church groups turning out their pockets and National Guardsmen saving puppy's from buildings. Nothing at all about the wider issues at stake. I log onto the BBC to see a grilling of American actions - the scary thing is that it hadn't even really occured to me how bad the sitatuion was - because the US media didn't let me know about it!!

The most powerful nation in the world, and yet the least informed? possibly.