Over the last eight years we have witnessed the slow elimination of world news from American television. International bureaus have been closed, reporters and photographers let go or reassigned...even the Daily Show does more "on location" pieces from foreign lands than any of the cable channels, and I'm not sure all of those are really "on location"!
This seems preposterous given the increasingly global nature of our existence, but in Bush's America the preposterous became commonplace, and so we tend to get used to some really ridiculous results. To this Kossack it seemed to fit with the overall Bushian attitude that "the rest of the world doesn't matter." Well, those days are gone, and now, it seems, the rest of the world may now start to return to American television.
Christiane Amanpour just got her own show on CNN International. Nightly. Weekends on CNN for the rest of us. And the focus will be international news. It's not a huge deal, but it's a start in the right direction.
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