If the media did report on what happened in Iceland, how many people in the US would lift an eyebrow?
I don't know about Europeans or Asians but sadly not many in the US will as I hope.
I know this is purely anecdotal due to the influences of my friends and family in reacting to news like this. Not many of my friends/family are voracious readers on what's happening around the world and want to see how things are done. Even after I would explain to them what happened in Iceland or what we have failed to do with our banking executives, many would simply shrug and say "not much I can do".
I am confident if there was a research done on the attitudes of Americans, we would be dismayed to learn that many don't really care.
So does it really matter if the 'media suppresses' these info when in actually a reader can actually find all sorts of news if he or she bothers to look?
I would argue that it's a feeling of 'what can be done?' more than literally not caring.
From what I've read, 1/3 or less of the colonists were in favor of the American revolution. The only reason it happened is because the representatives did not take a vote. Would anybody be surprised if a lot less than that percentage proactively care about their liberty today?
Of the people I know that do really care about what's happening in the US today, most seem to feel helpless to stop it.
By the same coin, only about ~1/3 of the colonists were "Loyalists". The remainder didn't necessarily want the revolution but would have aided it had it happened, or would have been OK with the status quo had it been left that way.
I feel the same kind of apathy is strong in the UK, at this point I think our situation is worse than the US but nobody seems to care. Even to the point there is social stigma attached to bringing the subject up with most people, but then maybe I need to meet more people...
I don't know about Europeans or Asians but sadly not many in the US will as I hope.
I know this is purely anecdotal due to the influences of my friends and family in reacting to news like this. Not many of my friends/family are voracious readers on what's happening around the world and want to see how things are done. Even after I would explain to them what happened in Iceland or what we have failed to do with our banking executives, many would simply shrug and say "not much I can do".
I am confident if there was a research done on the attitudes of Americans, we would be dismayed to learn that many don't really care.
So does it really matter if the 'media suppresses' these info when in actually a reader can actually find all sorts of news if he or she bothers to look?