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I strongly disagree with this. Foreign journalists tend to concentrate in small areas, usually major cities, and talk mostly with other journalists and power elites. They usually aren't doing man-on-the-street interviews or tough investigative journalism. You may just be getting a distorted echo of how certain factions within your country wants to be seen to the outside world.

I have seen American and Latin American coverage of UK events and it's like Gell-Mann amnesia on crack.