local vs. foreign news

Carefully staying out of the potential quagmire that is Israel/Palestine, I can offer a simple solution to the problem of excessively introspective news media: Move to a small country. Here in NZ, our two major fre-to-air-broadcasters give pretty decent coverage of the outside world, probably because if they did not, they would never fill their 48 minute hours. On the other issue, all I will say is that Lord Acton had it right.