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Another favourite American cliche which turns out to be true is how inward-looking the media is.
The hotel's complimentary newspaper is USA Today which is the most widely read paper in the country with a circulation of 2.25 million copies per day.
It sells for 75 cents and is printed on high-quality stock; massive circulation enables that sort of thing.

Even though its name makes it clear that it is overwhelmingly about the US I do think it is reasonable to expect that the largest daily newspaper should have some international news.

Of the thirty or so pages split into four distinct sections[2] this(below) is how much is devoted to international news. And that includes a photo of a Diana memorial.


And this section carries some serious news; Iran, Darfur and corruption in Russia amongst other bite-size morsels[1].

The only other substantial international news (several articles) is on, yup, Iraq.
But the, that's the 52nd state isn't it?

Some of the cartoons are quite good, especially this one below on Iran's Mahmoud.




[1] It seems that as big as the lunch servings are, as small are the news bites.
[2] This morning's edition carried a four-page pull-out section on this weekend's NHRA drag-racing event.