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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
It's all about how one can relate. I'm sure news was pouring from the UK about the recent wedding, and while America and the rest of the world covered it, it surely didn't have as much significance as it did to England. The Bin Laden story isn't not being covered; there were news flashes about it on all of the prompter screens as I walked through Tokyo station today. I found out about the news simply from being in Japan and walking through the station before I heard what happened from a western news source. But there's definitely more significance to it for Americans.
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Actually the US news covered the wedding to a far,
far greater degree than the UK press did - or at least from what I've seen. There was a lot of press about it on the actual day, but in the month leading up it was the US who had the most coverage . . . and you're right, it is being covered elsewhere (Bin Laden, that is) but just not to the insane degree in the US.
You could be right, and that it's because the event has far more significance to the US than to elsewhere, but at the same time the terrorist attacks affected everyone, and a lot of smaller countries had smaller attacks too. I know 9/11 was in America, but so many people died from other countries and from other nations in the towers, I have to question
why it's more significant to America. Sorry, I just really don't get it :-/