Michael Wolff de New York Magazine sur la place de la couverture internationale assurée par les media américains: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=5251
Until September 11, the media didn't bother much with international news. Could it be because bad news is earnest, boring -- and incredibly hard to monetize?

"All this shit is gone ineradicably," said my friend Rory O'Connor over lunch the other day. He was speaking about business news -- the market-is-everything kind of business news that became the cash cow of journalism during the prewar go-go years. But more generally, he meant that the whole non-news news slant was finished. News as a product, or by-product, of media organizations, as pure P&L, ratings-driven programming, was over. Old-fashioned news values -- reflecting a kind of seriousness not seen in a generation -- were coming back.