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Great minds (which clearly leaves mine out of the running) continue to be annoyed by the same cultural artifacts here<\/a> and there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday at lunch one of the locals asked whether I found it awkward being away from the U.S. election coverage during all this primary action. As was the case when we were here in the UK during the 2000 election, we generally find the coverage here to be better than what we’d get back home. It tends to be more focussed on issues and have more depth (less oriented towards sound bites), so no tears shed here. And, with most news outlets on-line now, you can really choose to read\/watch\/listen to pretty much whatever news sources you want to, regardless of your physical location.<\/p>\n

During the 2000 election several well-meaning people independently offered to send us U.S. newspapers so we could keep up with things. Given that it’s damn difficult to get good international news in the States, it’s not entirely surprising that people assume that it’s hard to get U.S. news when abroad. Given that the U.S. election was front page news over here, however, we declined :-).<\/p>\n

Thanks to James Good<\/a> for the cool image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great minds (which clearly leaves mine out of the running) continue to be annoyed by the same cultural artifacts here and there. Yesterday at lunch one of the locals asked whether I found it awkward being away from the U.S. election coverage during all this primary action. 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