Interesting, Doug - and that's not meant sarcastically or anything - but was that because you felt that the news wasn't covering stories that it should have been covering, more especially stories about what was happening in the rest of the world (rather than the USA), or was it because you felt the stories weren't being covered properly.

I supplement my news reading nowadays through the Internet, and especially the Google News facility, and I have got the impression a fair number of times that, for quite significant foreign stories, which have been given fair coverage in the kind of newspapers in England which actually carry much news (and not all do), the US media don't seem to figure much. But that may be a false impression, and down to the way Google works.

When I'm on holiday I tend not to do much watching TV news or reading papers if I can help it. I see that as a major part of the holiday.