Although I have to agree with the previous poster that Americans are not the best-informed people in the world, I also have to wonder if anyone is indeed well-informed. All newspapers have a specific perspective; all sources from which newspapers get their news have a perspective. What we consider "mainstream" media, such as the Globe & Mail, present the news from their own bias, even if subtle.

I believe that news has become virtually subjective, and the only way for a person to learn what is going on is to read the same story from several different slants - right, left, Israeli, Palestinian, whatever. Sometimes foreign news sources give us information that our own have omitted.

With the internet, this choice is no longer so difficult.