I like to go to the BBC News website for the latest world news since I find American news sites overly focused on US news. However, at this very moment I see no less than four “headline” stories on the BBC News front page that pertain mainly or entirely to the US: one story about vice-president Cheney, one about California wildfires, another about the upcoming California elections, and one about the so-called baseball “World” Series.

What’s up with that? The BBC might be forgiven if those were stories of international importance, but for the most part they are not. Please… if I gave a flying flip about US news I’d go to CNN.