Elections around the world

I found a picture on Drudge Report today. It was a picture of a float in a German parade. The float was two big balloons. One was a representation of Hillary she looked like a shrill old lady bent over and Obama was depicted as a dog biting her. The float disturbed me simply from the picture that was showing. I was extremely offended by the image it was portraying and I began to think about it more. It is ironic that this float was in Germany. Our elections have such a big impact on the rest of the world. When was the last time you saw a float in an American parade depicting Angela Merkel. How many people even know who she is? She is the Chancellor of Germany, the first female, and most people would not know her name if they heard it. People in Germany would only know of our elections if the media was covering it. Very few people seek out that information on their own. It is interesting that the foreign media covers our elections for President but we do not cover other countries. Is that something to hold against our media? Would American's know more about other countries if the media showed more than Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan? Should the media be responsible for making sure the American public knows about foreign affairs or are they simply giving people what they want to see? I feel like I am relatively informed on foreign governments but I have to seek that information out. Hardly is there anything in the news on foreign countries if it is not a country in the middle east. If I want to find out what is going on in Colombia I have to go to the BBC website or the Economist. I believe this is definately a shortcoming on the part of our news networks. They need to step up and show more than what happens in the United States. We are being a global world. It is becoming increasingly important to know about more the our little pocket of the globe.



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