The American Expatriate: A change of pace

THE AMERICAN ^REEXPATRIATE

"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans

Friday, September 30, 2005

A change of pace

Unbeknownst to me until today, it appears that The New York Times has a correspondent, Sarah Lyall, whose job seems to be to exclusively cover Britian. Today's article is bit of a human interest puff piece on "chavs" in general and "lotto lout" Michael Carroll in particular. But she does seem to do some more serious stories. Given that I spend most of my time highlighting the failures of the British press to accurately cover the US, I thought it would be interesting and make a nice change of pace to occassionally look at how the US press covers Britain. I'll keep an eye on Lyall and report back with anything interesting.