talk about circular reasoning. A whole page of this sht.
The US has an enormous magnifying glass over it so the entire world can examine and critique our every move, political figure, social norm, celebrity, current event, hurricane, election, invention, earthquake, law, meal, scandal, phenomena, artist, crime, funny internet video, etc etc infinity. The fact that a killing here has the attention of the entire globe, yet I couldn't tell you the details of the last 5 bombings in Western Europe (without wikipedia) shows that there is a weird imbalance of global media coverage, most of which is marketed and sold so that we look bad for the entertainment of foreigners, like the Carlie Sheen of global superpowers.
That's just the way of the world at this point, but sometimes I wish other Western countries would promote themselves and their culture and produce their own globally propagated media if ours is so shitty. Maybe I need a Latvian sketch comedy show to take a load off my mind but I wouldn't know!