Foreign Jellies (i.e. not Americans) how much of your international news is American?

As an American who’s lived all over Asia, when I lived overseas, my news was mostly local. I loved it. I loved getting insight into other parts of the world and insight into American news from a truly different point of view.

Now that I’m sort of living back in the States, I get my news from the Internet, and much of that is international. I’d say about 50%.

I would say 70% here in Canada. CNN and Fox rule. Also BBC seem to really center up on the major news of the USA. For example, we were kept right up to date with Gabrielle Giffords and her space pilot husband Marky Kelly.

A lot of our news comes from the USA and considering the UK is part of Europe we hear comparatively little from the continent and even less from everywhere else. Events in the US are very heavily reported here but there again our country has historic ties with America, a common language and lots of travel each way across ‘the Pond’.

All weekend for example our news has been leading with the hurricane and it is even the main story in the weather forecast. More variety wouldn’t be a bad thing.

….Looking at the answers…why is that??

Most of the news is local. Increasingly regional affairs are included in the coverage. International news depends upon what is going on: we are following the goings-on in Libya with much interest and once hurricane Irene had left the West Indies, coverage shrank to a 3 minute report from New York.

I don’t really bother watching tv for news because most are crap. Some infos I find here while others from the forums I visit. Bit I don’t really pay any attention to world wide news simply because we have a lot of drama in our lives. It’s not like we need to hear other problems on a daily basis. I haven’t heard good news from tv from I can’t remember when.

I travel abroad from the U.S. and notice that the television transmits more local news than foreign new. They also look at the middle east with more equinamity than do we. In fact, you can get a better idea of what is happening outside the U.S. by watching BBC or Al Jazeera than if you watch Fox or NBC.

Very little of our news is American, unless there is someting specific happenning there. We get news of big hurricanes like Irene, we get presidential election news. Most of our news is British; most of whatever international news we get is mainly related to conflicts in the middle east.

i’d say 30% when something specific is happening.