Getting beyond the American media
Amendment I of the United States Constitution guarantees free speech in the press. Even so, we still only get the American perspective whether we’re using Fox news, CBS, National Public Radio, the New York Times, or any other American media company for that matter. However, one of the many great things that the internet does for democracy is that it allows us to reach beyond our national boundaries without much effort at all. The website Watching America does an excellent job of compiling newspapers from around the globe and translating them into English for you and I to read. I highly recommend this website as a chance to look beyond the American perspective and see what other nations are saying in the press.
Of course, many of these papers will be biased in their own way, but if we can examine other versions of the same story, then perhaps we can determine a more global truth of each event. Only then will we as members of the global community be able to come to some consensus on how to proceed during these times of difficult international tensions.
