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One of my hopes for the future of the Internet is that we will all be able read news from other countries in "their own write" without the intrusive comments of TV anchor-units, regardless of the quality of their English.
Jo - actually, you can basically do that NOW - I frequent the Jordan Times (daily English language newspaper at http://www.jordantimes.com) web site and others from the region to see what exactly they are saying (primarily about Israel, of course, but it's always interesting to get their 'spin' on the world at large).
Also - most TV stations and many radio as well - try going to http://www.jpostradio.com for instance - around the world seem to have their own sites - best way to find them is to simply do a search (I use http://www.Go2Net.com) on the country name - except once I typed in "Turkey" and I got pages and pages of URLs with recipes on how to roast the Thanksgiving bird with all the trimmings!) or just try typing in www.tv.gov.__(and the two-letter country code) or sometimes without the .gov part... I just experiment with potential addresses to see what pops up!
Have fun - oh, it would help if we (and our computers) actually could READ some of those other languages as many are now in their own 
rather than in English, but the ones I gave links for above are all in English and sometimes the "English" they use is very interesting!
- I'll use this as my 'summer smile emoticon' since the sun is quite bright now and I need my shades!
Shoshannah
