British vs USA NEWS! / are Americans actually uneducated?

[@cpmahon]

News of the butter cows was a big story all around the world. In fact it's amazing how much it spread!!!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

😂

[@juliankaye8143]

I think it soon melted away.

[@colinclarke7957]

OK OK don't milk it.

[@dasy2k1]

Mooooove along nothing to see here. No need to cry over split milk

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

👏👏

[@bobsurface908]

As an American living in the UK for 35 years now, it astonishes me when I visit my hometown in Indiana and its ALL "Lafayette this" and "Delphi this", and there's NOTHING about - say - a literal general election in the UK, or that there's million refugees from Syria and Libya in Germany, and so on. Yet, US elections are headline news in the UK...and I've no idea what happened in Oxfordshire this week at all!

[@JohnMatthews-tv7tf]

Well, usually the BBC has half an hour of local news after the early evening national and international news, and summaries at other times of the day.

[@module79l28]

US elections are headline news pretty much everywhere in Europe, even with the Olympics about to start.

[@markianclark9645]

Exactly...to minimise hearing about America my life had to resort to no TV reception at all...no signal...nothing...and very selective with my many radios...and even more so with Google surfing...getting very fast with the mouse to avoid any American picture/text blocks containing any President or politician or political story...that way I can limit it to under 1% which is all I can tolerate of the USA...I can bear a lot more European news items...especially anything to do with Russian army tanks blown up or to enjoy any failed attempts to gain any territory in Ukraine...and joy if Russia are pushed back a little...basically any news that disappoints the Kremlin...is all I care internationally...nothing about America interests me in the slightest...but...I'm envious of course...average salary 10 to 20x or more...what I've ever been used to...and low taxes...opposite to what we're used to...but i wouldn't survive in the States with my background...I barely cope here

[@vrenak]

@@module79l28 That's because it's such a shitshow, and you have a fascist party and an party that is actually 5-7 parties in a trenchcoat vying for power, and none of the debates are tackling even a single real issue in the US.

[@Ashley6100]

@@JohnMatthews-tv7tf Oxfordshire Brit here, unfortunately fairly recently the BBC shut down our local broadcast centre and we were merged into "the South" - our "local" news is now regularly about what is happening in Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight, no exaggeration. It's now rare to see anything within 30 miles.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

I live in Australia and I'd say I'm geographically isolated, but I still manage to know what's going on in the world. So geographic isolation is no excuse for not knowing what's going on.

[@DevilishScience]

I've lived in and visited Australia many times over the past 50 years. My experience was that you knew about local state news, national news and international news. But if something happened in another state unless it was the Test match, or a major disaster you never knew.

[@robert3987]

Australia with only about 20 million people has much less 'local' news.

[@Poliss95]

@alwynemcintyre2184 Most of the Australian news media is owned by Murdoch.

[@brontewcat]

@@DevilishScienceThat is a pretty fair comment. I like listening to Radio National, so I do get to hear about news in states, but mostly the media is pretty stated based.

[@johnkitchen4699]

We visit family in Western Australia and, although they are British, they are generally ignorant of most things going on in the UK and even more ignorant of things going on in other countries. Their awareness seems limited to spectacular (and often incorrect) scandalous headlines gleaned from Australian TV and the International Daily Express (which pretends to be a newspaper).

[@occamraiser]

I've met a lot of both and I can honestly say that many Britons are uninterested in the wider world, but shockingly many Americans are UNAWARE of the wider world.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

It's a big world, keeping track of everything going on is a full time job. So, I'm vaguely aware that there's been a lot of protests in Kenya since their last election, and the police have been putting them down pretty brutally recently, but the details are lost on me.

[@vivienhodgson3299]

You make a very good point! But the USA in a sense has always rather turned its back on the rest of the world, being more or less fully self sufficient, and not wanting to be dragged into our wars until absolutely necessary. They don't even seem to learn the history of other countries in their schools, and are under the impression that we're all somewhat backward!

[@Sierraomega1991]

Brits tend to know but just don't care

[@Wabbit_Hunta]

@@Sierraomega1991 Unless it actually impacts their lives. Also it depends on where you live and what your job is.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I find a lot of Brits are really not very adventurous. They might be well travelled, been up Everest etc, but have never gone up the footpath about 50 ft from their home. I met a person from my village who asked me where I lived and when I told her she said she had never been down my road, after living in the small village 25 years. And my house was a focal point in the view from her house!

[@michaeljoyce9161]

Like many in the UK I believe that the BBC strives to be both truthful and accurate in it's reporting. That isn't the same thing as being unbiased, but at least it's a good starting position. After all the news headlines "Thirteen die in horrific plane crash" and "Pilot praised as eighty rescued after plane crash" may both be factual but put a different spin on the same event.

[@tanepukenga1421]

As a Kiwi who spent a lot of time in you neck of the woods, I'd have to agree with you on that statement. The London police drama showed that they did have a bit of bias when they tried to play it down at first, but overall they've been one of the most accurate places I've found to be informed. They were able to report on our first Christchurch Earthquake before our agencies could.

[@blotski]

I am fairly left wing and get annoyed by BBC for its bias against the left. My brother is fairly right wing and gets annoyed with them for its bias against the right. I suspect this means they are probably getting it more balanced than either of us would like to admit.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Haha, this is a great point! Thanks for watching!

[@vinceely2906]

With the current Hamas/Israel war the BBC got roughly 50/50 complaints in regards to bias

[@barryevans791]

The point of the BBC is that it should not be biased in either direction. It is fine to get a point of view through interviews, but they should be sticking to facts rather than engaging in propaganda.

[@dasy2k1]

The BBC bias is strongly towards the current administration in government and the status quo rather than specifically left and right This means for the last 14 years they have been slightly right of centre but have stepped slightly left since the election (but not far as the current government isn't particularly left wing itself)

[@eadweard.]

​@@barryevans791I think that's what the OP was saying - that the BBC aren't, in fact, biased in either direction.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Now I find it easier to understand how some American teenagers have difficulty grasping that there are other countries in the world than the USA. The hyper-localism of TV and print news and the near complete absence of geography and history from the school curriculum.

[@GafftheHorse]

It's not just American teenagers. Young people always get unfairly branded stupid. I say this as a guy in his fifties.

[@PushSteady]

California has the same population as Germany... and is just slightly larger than Germany... The amount Americans know about each state is probably comparable to how much Europeans know about other countries Edit: thinking about it i bet Americans know more about the states then Europeans know about their neighboring countries...

[@edeledeledel5490]

Jimmy Kimmel did a street interview segment on his show on geography - about 20% of the interviewees didn't even recognise the outline of the USA. That's how good at geography they are.

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@Simonsvids A comedy program some years ago on US TV advertised a device/software that stopped any site other than US ones featuring in an internet search, as a spoof and a comment on US isolationism. There were thousands of demands for more information on it from TV viewers...

[@paulmilner8452]

i don't they are just ignorant , they know what the internet is like many nations. they just don't wanna know thats simply it

[@TheBlackcredo]

A while ago I was talking to an American who was adamant that the daily mail was left wing. I thought they were joking at first.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

oh my....

[@andypandy9013]

Back in March, following a remark by a friend whose Daughter lives in the USA (Florida), I recently compared the news stories on a UK TV channel as compared to a US TV channel. Just out of interest of course. 🙂 For the UK I used the BBC evening bulletin and for the US I used the NBC one. The results were interesting. BBC Domestic stories: 7 (54%) Stories involving both the UK and a foreign country: 2 (15%) Purely foreign stories: 4 (31%) NBC Domestic stories: 9 (90%) Stories involving both the US and a foreign country: 1 (10%) Purely foreign stories: 0 (0%) I think that tells you all you need to know about the lack of knowledge that most Americans have about the world outside their borders and why my friend's Daughter has been watching the BBC News Channel online to find out what is actually happening outside the borders of the USA.

[@keithknight6521]

My brother family live in USA, and when I visit them. They rely on the BBC America channel for their international news, because of more depth.

[@brontewcat]

Really interesting. I think I may do that with Australian news. Although last Monday (just after Biden stepped down) I can tell you the news on Radio National seemed to be heavily foreign and it was 100% foreign on the AM current affairs show straight after the 7.00am news.

[@turokforever007]

But was the BBC telling the truth. As for the US it is so big so they won't run out of local news

[@andypandy9013]

@@turokforever007 When a major world event happens "the world and his wife" turns to the BBC to find out what is going on. The BBC is, by the terms of its Charter, politicaly neutral. Which is a lot more than you can say about the likes of Fox News. Also, the UK is hardly a small country yet we still take an interest in things happening outside our country. As do all the countries on the european mainland. 😃

[@geoffsmith1479]

"The US is geographically isolated".... To be honest, I think the geographical isolation may be somewhat of a red herring. Canadians have pretty much the exact same geographical isolation and New Zealand is arguably much more isolated, however their citizenry shows much more world awareness. The more salient issue is that America is culturally isolated by design - it is a top-down choice.

[@MrSteve280]

Come on now, be nice. It's just 250 years of an overinflated sense of self-importance.

[@cr10001]

Two ways to look at it. Either it's because Canucks and Kiwis are far less head-in-sand insular than - let's just say many - USAnians Or, because nothing much ever happens in Canada or NZ ;)

[@cageordie]

Right! Back in the 1980s when I was travelling around North America as a Brit I got as far as Cape Breton Island, Georgia, California, and British Columbia. I always knew when I was close to the Canadian border because the TV also got Canadian broadcast news. You could tell from the first headline, because it would be something international most nights. Then they talked about major events all across the country. When I was in Calgary for three weeks in 1997, the local news covered Quebec considering leaving Canada. We watched it every night in the hotel bar. So when the First Nation folks told the cities that regardless of what they chose the First Nation was staying with Canada, we saw the effort fall flat in real time. The news also covered the land speed record attempt, which resulted in Thrust SSC establishing the current record which still stands at 863mph, even though that was in Black Rock Desert NV. Canada did not feel isolated from the world.

[@CalderdaleKid]

Really interesting. This explains a lot. BTW, great sense of humor. Love all your videos

[@nicolek4076]

You have omitted any reference to the UK Broadcasting Standards Authority that requires news channels to maintain a least a figment of even-handedness. This is why Fox News closed their British operation - they could give no such undertaking and faced an unacceptable (for them) situation.

[@onastick2411]

Figment being the operative word

[@noelsalisbury7448]

They also have the "The Sun" & "The Times" and "The Sun on Sunday" - so Murdoch doesn't have too much of an inconvenience..

[@onastick2411]

@@noelsalisbury7448 A successful business man, rivals have come and gone, but he keeps going. Lots of people envy that.

[@nicolek4076]

@@noelsalisbury7448 Newspapers do not come into the remit of the Broadcasting Standards Authority

[@noelsalisbury7448]

@@nicolek4076 I understand that, but it's questionable whether a Single Organisation ( with 'several' Companies) should own a major percentage of two different segments of Media. Newspapers and Television news outlets. Why? Because if a single organisation presents the same political bias to the Public, funded by a specific Political Party, then too much of the whole media has that same Political Slant / Viewpoint. Which results in a narrowing of the spectrum of opinions. It's Media Manipulation. ( Apologies if in anyone's opinion I've left the core of the discussion )

[@gamingtonight1526]

Britain would make a HUGE mistake if it got rid of the BBC and sold off Channel 4 - and both of those things are talked about all the time! And as a Brit, I lived in Texas for 7 years, and their local newspapers have local, in my case, Houston, National, which was State, and International was U.S. news. If there was major news outside the U.S. then it would be covered in the International section. In my 7 years, I think world news was covered every 8 weeks or so.

[@neilbiggs1353]

I hate the idea that the BBC in particular is compared to paying for a streaming service with the idea that "I don't watch enough on there" being valid. We need a BBC that creates content that gives a voice for as many parts of the UK as possible, like creating TV shows for kids about their stories growing up here. It doesn't do anything for me, but I recognise it as a public good

[@paulmilner8452]

atleast pensioners would be able to afford more heating when they get rid of that ridiculous content licence ......... its outdated and should be scrapped , also seen as they have harboured so many paedophiles from the 70s to now, i won't be sorry if they go under

[@paulmilner8452]

for allt he ones who want to keep it why not make it a content purchase? we now live in a digital world lett he peaople who like bbc content pay for the service , let others not pay for the service ...... no but instead because i watch ITV or channel 4 i ot forced to pay for bbc , that's the problem we have with these parasites

[@KevinNapper1]

Thanks for the comparison. It sounds like things have remained similar over the years. I was visiting the US when I heard that Chernobyl had blown up and found it very difficult to find a news report that described what was going on. I was very confused by the newspapers not really going outside the local area when I was used to UK newspapers being more international.

[@johncrwarner]

I remember my first visit to the USA in 1989 I have to say from the news programmes I felt very isolated from the rest of the world and not very well informed about national events and I was in Baltimore a short distance from Washington DC. It was weird to not be told about much foreign news I think there were THREE stories in the five weeks I was there for anything involving a foreign country. That summer a boat called the Marchioness sank in the River Thames in London. This was reported (as some young Americans died in the incident) but the mispronunciation of "Marchioness" and "Thames" was hilariously bad.

[@chrislaing7153]

I remember being stuck (with work) in a hotel in Switzerland for two weeks. The only English speaking channel on TV was CNN (No BBC, France24 (English), DW or Al Jezeera) at the end of the two weeks, I had no clue of what was going on in the world. Knew all about the ballotix in the mainland US.

[@johncrwarner]

@@chrislaing7153 I would watch the local news in either German, French or Italian because at least you would see pictures of events Even it is seems like the Fast Show's "Channel 9 Neus" kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3rFdaJ3q9moq8U

[@alicemilne1444]

​@@chrislaing7153 Moral of the story: use your initiative, learn other languages, go outside to the station or airport to find English-language newspapers. Don't rely on always being spoon-fed.

[@brontewcat]

My first visit to the UK was in 1989, and I remember the story of the sinking of the Marchioness well. I don’t know how well it was covered in Australia where I am from, but I am sure it was. But like Americans, Australian media seems to cover those stories more if Australians are involved.

[@johncrwarner]

@@brontewcat News gets covered if one national is injured killed, ten people from a neighbouring country and a minimum of 100 from the other "end of the world" in social terms at least not physically.

[@raycornford283]

The emphasis on local news in the US is perhaps why so many Americans are insular and know so little about the world outside their 'area'

[@eadweard.]

Is this actually true? That is, are they more so than any other nationality? I suspect it is just a rather ugly prejudice.

[@muttley5958]

America is the size of Europe. 🤔 Maybe that has something to do with it. 🤔

[@crossleydd42]

When I worked on a Post Office counter by St James's Palace, Mayfair, in the 1960's, we regularly got Americans coming in and asking for 5 cents stamps. Usually, we were helpful, but once I merely said that we didn't sell 5 cents stamps. They were stumped, went into a huddle, then asked for stamps for postcards for the States. The fact that they thought we used American currency in the UK was astounding.

[@drzander3378]

I’ve lived in both the UK and the US. Admittedly, when I was in the US it was before the internet, but back then Americans were vastly more parochial than Britons. I don’t know with certainty whether that’s still the case but given how insular I found people in the US to be, I suspect it still is. It just seems to be part of the culture.

[@redf7209]

The local news I've seen in the US is not what we would call local. However these days we have internet . The news is there to be had if people look for it but they do not want to know or only want to know what pleases them.

[@craigculver1933]

When the " Fairness in Broadcasting act" was overturned in the 1980's under the Reagan Admin, No longer promising both sides equal time on the same networks and the ever expanding cable news markets, Everyone lost, Here in the U.S. Now corporate run sideshows are the new norm. You really have to find your own, often foreign sources for information of the wider world.

[@jeromemckenna7102]

Using international standard the US TV news networks would be center-right. They mystery is how people in the US learned to accept the right wings version of what is left and right.

[@demonbarber101]

lol thats not how us Brits look at it. its hard to watch American news because it is so left leaning.

[@glerp10000000000]

@@demonbarber101 CNN and MSNBC are leftist propaganda - it's not even news.

[@CJJC]

Hilarious

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@demonbarber101 You meant to say ''right leaning'' didn't you. Because Fox is nowhere near to the left by any metric, it's so far to the right as to be a laugh at this stage (and was - effectively - banned in the UK because of this).

[@KeenAesthetic1]

If you have Capitalism as the real majority religion then a country's balance is bound to be off kilter

[@nicoswann]

As a Norwegian I must say that for me the most reliable news is from BBC and NRK (norwegian broadcasting corp)and with the news programs ,we first get international news together with national news, and after the main newsprogramme is finnished we get 15min. of regional news from where you live. As of news from the US I tend to follow CNN and ABC. Newspapers are mostly digital. I almost never buy any printed news anymore, but subscribe to local papers on line. You get the "online" version, but you also get the "digital" version of the printed paper aswell. we have 6 national newspapers and hundreds of local ones. And UK is our neighbours so online papers like mirror and daily mail is what I read every day, and as a Norwegian everything about PL is a must read. So SKY sports and Talk sport radio is for me a good listen. I think that Americans have to seek knowledge for them selves because If you just follow what you see or hear in your schools , your local news and state related information, I think that you'll never learn anything about the outside world , except what comes out of the White house . I do believe that Europeans "know" more about whats happening in the world simply because we are not so , how should I put it; "self centered" I mean it seems that they think that they matter more, so whats happening elsewhere don't matter that much.

[@djsat2]

And of course only on the BBC do they have a count-down to the news with a sick dance anthem to get you excited!

[@swanvictor887]

Rock on, David Lowe...!

[@chrislaing7153]

The bit you have to remember is the definition of right and left varies between country. For the UK, Bernie is left wing, the Democrats are just about right of centre and Republicans (traditionally) on your chart would be strong right. Nowadays they would be Partisan Right.

[@andyf4292]

have a look at the political compass..... its... alarming. basically all american politicians class as right, bernie sanders is pretty much centre

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

The Republicans crossed over into fascist at least thirty years ago with the whole “we’re not going to work with Democrats on anything” and taking gerrymandering to the max. And that power dive to hell course of theirs was begun decades before that and keeps accelerating.

[@williamjenman6902]

The MAGA Republican party is literally (original definition of literally) Fascist. The Democrats would be unelectably right wing in the UK, although in the UK I suspect they'd be able to be truer to themselves about things like healthcare, benefits (aka welfare) and gun laws and move to a more centrist position. The spectrum of politics is so skewed right in the US its hard to compare.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I find my more left of centre views get me labelled as a commie by some Americans

[@pinknylon1121]

They have no idea what Socialism means!

[@globetwig4401]

Just like the US with Fox, we've got GB news for the people who find thinking difficult.

[@RichWoods23]

And that's just the presenters.

[@narendra62]

I watch GB news all the time. It is indispensable for getting the news the legacy channels don't want to touch. They are also great at getting opposing views. For example Novara media is often on there. And they are not hectored. I could go on, buy I think you've got the gist. If you want to be better informed GB News is the place to go. The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News are echo chambers of the left.

[@peterjones6507]

As a fan of GB news I'm surprised to learn that other people find thinking easier. I wonder if this is because their thoughts are not so complex.

[@globetwig4401]

@@peterjones6507 It was just a flippant turn of phrase mate. I'm fully aware that some of you didn't get expelled from school.

[@andyf4292]

I've seen florida local news.... they had a news ticker, and talking heads, because someone dumped a cooker on a road. they kept going back to it. for a day

[@Trebor74]

They forgot their pancakes.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I had to switch off a WhatsApp village group as notifications were going off all the time when I was at work and it was all about the milk being delivered to the wrong house, some one's chickens being on the road, a dustbin being hit by a car, a lorry reversing where it shouldn't. Things like that.

[@chrislaing7153]

The big difference is that butter cow scuptures is only local news worthy in the US. Our equivalent, cheese rolling, makes international news. The Ohio sculptors need to hire a better PR company (or should that be A Butter PR Company)

[@terencesaunders1357]

Another great episode thanks. You must have worked hard on this one , thanks.

[@carolineskipper6976]

I tend to get my news from BBC Radio 4 in the first instance, and then use the BBC website to catch up with stories that have particularly grabbed my attention. For local news I follow the local newspaper's FaceBook Page. Where I lived intol about 3 years ago used to have a weekly local paepr that was struggling because it was based in a town some distance away, so the news was often low on local detail (or even inaccurate). Then a local group bought up the paper's business and relaunched under a new name and unusually has gone from strength to strength in the last few years, developing a high trust rating amongst locals. They did this by having locally based reporters and actually going arouond the district to gather real human interest stories as well as local political or business stories. Obviously I only see clips of US news TV stations, but to me there seems to be a whole hyped up energy to them, and making what are already dramatic stories more so than they need to be. I'm guessing this is part of the need for commercial success- get your viewers engaged and you keep your funding. Most UK stations (although I have seen occasions when this has not happened and it makes me cringe!) take a much calmer and measured tone whils telling us of the latest disaster or tragedy. We know when a tragedy has happened, and don't need it bigging up for more drama.....

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

So why have we been having 24 hr a day reports of the same things and coverage of the US shenanigans for months now. Yet Britain is in an awful mess after 14 years of conservative corruption and incompetence?

[@lynby6231]

As soon as the tories got into power they put their own people on the board of the BBC, if you don’t think the BBC are politically biased then you’re kidding yourself.

[@LalaDepala_00]

I am Dutch and left. Over the last few years I lost a couple American friends, because they were becoming more and more radical. Educating me about my own history. Calling me "far right" every time we disagree. Politics in the U.S. seems extremely toxic. Edit: Just one example - I have had Americans tell me that "Europeans were black in medieval times". This is simply not true, but when I say it is not true, I am called a racist. It is - genuinely - bizarre to me. Love your videos!

[@Sparkypark]

Pass the dutchie on the left hand side…

[@OP-1000]

What?

[@edeledeledel5490]

Your American friends are evidence that if you tell a blatant lie over and over again, ignorant people believe it. Trump has built his whole career on this fact, especially his political career. Virtually everything he ever says is an out and out lie. Except the fact that he would like to "date" his daughter.

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@OP-1000 It's a song, I think Sparky is trying to be funny.

[@OP-1000]

@@Lily-Bravo I know the song, but I was reacting to the first comment that had the statement “Europeans were black in medieval times” .

[@carltonurwin3923]

OMG ! Thank you for this and all of your research. I really like this type of content from you. You’re getting really good 👍

[@johnsimmons5951]

In the 1980’s I did my 1st holiday in New England USA. While in New York City I bought a copy of The New York Times, it was a publication I knew of in the UK, but was shocked to find it read just like a local English news paper. The news on the radio and TV was similar.

[@apmoy70]

First off, only an American would say that news is "consumed"...in every other language I know of, news is followed or got, that's a huuuge difference in mentality

[@colingibson7324]

Art, books, music etc. nowadays they’re all consumed.

[@reriuqne0-ny1er]

Excellent, thoughtful and well researched video.

[@stephenwood5555]

Really interesting and informative. I would welcome more. All the best.

[@CollectiveWest1]

Great choice for a topic, and a very interesting summary. The US does sometimes seem a bit insular, which is perhaps understandable because the country is so large. I found that when I worked in the US about 20 years ago. But you explained how that relative insularity is deeper and more local. I am not being critical - it is understandable. Newspapers have declined - when I started work, many commuters including me would buy a paper every day, and perhaps the Evening Standard as well, but now I rarely look inside a newspaper, except to pass the time glancing through a freesheet.

[@BrandonLeeBrown]

That's the biggest difference, is size. The US is so large, that it's own news already fills entire newspapers and half hour news broadcasts. The newspapers and board casts have little space left for world news. To see an even further extreme of size, look at the English news from India. It is filled with news from villages all across India, with little space left for international news. Australia, being so much smaller than the UK, can cover even more world news.

[@BenRattigan]

It’s always interesting to see differences in TV news given that Ch4, Ch5 and ITV national news are all produced in the same building by the same company, ITN in London.

[@kathrynhobbs8874]

I was stunned when watching tv in Florida, a much repeated item was listing each person, with photo, that graduated from high school.! This would not happen here, we just about maybe have a class photo…certainly not a school year book.

[@andyf4292]

theyre proud of the ones that didn't get shot

[@Phiyedough]

We don't graduate from high school, we attend for the required number of years then leave!

[@kathrynhobbs8874]

@@Phiyedough quite so

[@alanbenson7363]

Hi, just a quickie to say how well researched and put together, I thought this post was for what it is and the time to impart the information you had. Not that your other videos are not, just your others are more personal and light-hearted, I feel, I found it interesting and informative. Thank you 👍

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you very much for taking the time to leave such an encouraging comment. I really enjoy researching for more serious topics like this as well and will definitely be doing more.

[@alanbenson7363]

I owe you an apology. Since I posted my original comment, I've seen a lot more of your videos. Quite a fair percentage have well researched and imparted material as well as the more light-hearted bits (which are still also enjoyable by theway)🍾🥂

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Absolutely everywhere I’ve lived in the UK (and it’s a fair few locations in Scotland and England) has had a local newspaper but the ones that have a daily edition tend to be evening papers and then there are some that are just weekly. So depending on the time of day/week you were looking for the local paper, there may either not have been that days edition put out yet or if it’s a weekly edition then you’ll struggle to find a copy in the couple of days before the new edition. Most people who buy print media in the UK are also likely to buy both a national and the local paper. The national in the morning and the local in the evening. In fact, in the small West of Scotland town I grew up in there were I think three evening papers that were commonly available, one for the very local area and two or three for the nearby major city. As well as the national papers that were available in the mornings some national as in only really available in Scotland, some national as in they have a Scottish edition and some national as in they are they exact same paper that’s available throughout the UK. Remember that whilst you’re talking about how large the US is and how big the population is, so there is more emphasis on local news, the UK is vastly more densely populated, so on average there are far more people living per square mile in the UK than there is in the US, so by your theory local news should be more prevalent in the UK.

[@Brian3989]

A local evening newspaper would not work now. Before we all had even heard of computers and the internet, the local evening paper printed several editions during the day, with updated news. and shops employed delivery boys/girls. There were no local radio stations and the nearest television news source was lunchtime, teatime, and late evening. Now of course we have Internet news that can be updated minutes after an event. Some areas have a local weekly paper but with printing costs those are vanishing. The local weekly paper has been around since 1690 when they did not print local news, but national news or beyond. In 1805 the Battle of Trafalgar was main news story some weeks after the event. Times have changed.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@Brian3989 weird that because there is still a local daily evening paper produced where I grew up and there is still a local daily evening newspaper where I currently live. There were local commercial radio stations where I grew up, along with the BBC one. So while TV news only happened a handful of times a day, radio news was hourly. I also very clearly remember the days before the internet and digital/cable/satellite channels as I was born in the mid 70’s. But I have lived in places with both daily (though they are generally just the six days a week with no Sunday issue) local papers and weekly ones…and some places that had both, with others that had a paid for daily and free weekly.

[@Peterraymond67]

Hi. I live in South Wales and apart from the usual daily newspapers we get a Welsh daily called the Western Mail and for the evening they publish the South Wales Echo. Other parts of Wales have Welsh language papers. There are a few weekly papers, usually local. The Western Mail & The Echo are well known for their daily family announcements, known as Hatched, Matched &dispatched, or Births, Engagements & Weddings, and finally Death notices & Funeral reports, typical oocal newspaper fodder along with Magistrate Reports. These ads and their “For Sale” ads are great earning trade for the newspaper. When I was working I used to buy a newspaper when I passed the local garage, a newspaper, can of Coke and a choclate bar, on the run breakfast. Plan was to complete the Crossword during my 10 O’Clock tea break. Now I’m retired I don’t buy a newspaper, I rely on the BBC Internet news site, it splits, international, UK, Wales and South Wales. When I was driving I would get news from BBC Radio2.

[@-MacCat-]

Very, very well done. Thankfully there is a reasonable and informative critique on the news we are provided.

[@MoodyMarco-vj3oe]

Isn't there a web site/service that aggregates all news stories and tries to give you a guide/rating about where the story came from and how/what bias it has? I think it might be called Ground (or similar)

[@TR4zest]

A subscription service, if you want to pay for otherwise free news service.

[@suzettewilliams1758]

My home city of Norwich has and the local region in Norfolk have a number of local papers. Eastern Daily Press, Eastern Evening News, Great Yarmouth Mercury etc.

[@ianbailey4667]

My local newspaper has a different front cover for each local town, but the rest of the paper is the same news

[@timrobertson1571]

Fascinating. Thank-you. I buy a French newspaper 2 or 3 times a week, but not for the news, it's to practice my French. When I lived in the UK I don't think I ever bought a newspaper since leaving Uni in 1980. And then it was the Daily Telegraph, but only because we had a competition in our student house to be first to complete the daily crossword!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

I do love a newspaper crossword!

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Me too, but we do the online Independent ones now. I found I was getting a bit "hoardy" with the paper versions. The online versions have cured me of that.

[@greghamann2099]

An excellent piece. I thought it was fair and to the point.

[@ara3592]

Very well explained, Kalyn. You might even say informative news about news

[@pauljohnson4871]

Love your videos kalyn. So interesting to compare both America & England. Keep posting xx

[@CrayWood-f9f]

Your content is really growing and so are you. Well done.

[@danmayberry1185]

Ooh, great topic - some added trivia: Tabloid journalism existed in the UK long before the first American national tab, USA Today (1982) Murdoch got his hooks into UK media a few years before Fox happened. PBS News might be the closest comparison to the BBC, in terms of content and presentation style. Beyond that, the class conscious UK has long profiled people by their choice of newspaper as much their grocery store!

[@productjoe4069]

To quote Yes, Prime Minister in 1987: Sir Humphrey: The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices. Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sir Humphrey: Oh and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun? Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big t*ts. (Yes, Prime Minister S02E04, copied from Wikiquote)

[@arwelp]

Murdoch bought the Sun in 1969, for £800,000 (paid in installments) - I remember the tv adverts for its relaunch “x Days ‘til the Sun!”. Still wouldn’t buy it, mind!

[@stevelknievel4183]

I live just outside London (in northern Surrey, in case you're interested) and to me, the local news bulletins on tv do not feel local as they all focus on London itself.

[@freddiefox.]

I've found that local online newspapers in Surrey cover the main local news quite well, although not in huge depth or detail, but they do cover it. It's ad-supported too, so free to view. The home counties are dominated by London economically, and culturally. It's just a fact of life, and has been like that for as long as I can remember. I think local democracy is not covered as well is it could be.

[@Marli-o4g]

I often find the London news has items on areas outside London too 😂

[@alanbolger2210]

I think you may have missed part of the story. Try looking up 'The difference between us and uk ebola news coverage, Russel Howard'. The difference is concerning but at the same time hilarious.

[@Lily-Bravo]

It is!

[@Bossman1959uk]

This was a really interesting video and maybe explains quite a few things. We’ve travelled abroad many times including twelve visits to the USA..We love the country and most of the people there but we noticed that some traveled abroad frequently but many others had never left the country. In some cases they had never traveled outside of the state. Possibly the news system causes this effect along with the size of the country although we get quite a few Australian tourists in London and that’s a bigger country than you’d imagine.

[@leepshin]

Up here in Scotland we have the Ayrshire Post in Ayrshire for local news stories.

[@joelennis6338]

Keeping us Americans focused on local and state news and politics and suppressing the bigger picture is probably a big reason that we have allowed ourselves to get so far behind in things like health care, education, and social welfare. Yet our wealthy country has huge influence on what is going on in the world - a dangerous combination. I feel Americans tend to be afraid of the rest of the world, as evidenced by our huge defense budget, the whole immigration mess, and the general lack of foreign travel experience. These days I'm consuming a lot of British TV through KZbin and I either listen to NPR or BBC on the radio, so I have a bigger picture than most I hope.

[@pspence9569]

The company I work for has an office in Erskine. We keep getting the Greenock Telegraph and Paisley Express, newspapers delivered. I'm thinking the lack of local newspapers isn't UK wide.

[@paulchambers3142]

One (free) newspaper which is for local people but also has national news...its called "Metro"...you can pick one up in London mainly at rail or tube Stations...as they are free they tend to go quickly! There are other "Metros " for other major cities.

[@wildduckification]

I really enjoy these sorts of videos you've been doing 😊

[@0KiteEatingTree0]

You’re more likely to find local papers in small shops or newsagents. Not a giant like ASDA

[@hikaru9624]

Still getting news from the radio makes sense given how so many of us drive and how most radio stations cover your local area.

[@Poliss95]

One big change has been the reporting of the Olympic Games. TV and radio used to report on all the events, now they only report on those where UK competitors are involved, which seems to be copying how the USA reports the games.

[@arthurvasey]

Local papers in the U.K. tend to be for an entire county, not a small town - papers that cover towns tend to be a free publication that is mainly classified ads for situations vacant (job vacancies), items for sale, properties to let and so on!

[@seijika46]

Where local UK papers still exist, subscriptions for them tend to be much higher than many national ones so it seems more cost-effective to go without the local stuff.

[@michaelsamuelbruff2917]

Enjoyed this, it helped me understand why there are differences in news consumption in each country, and showed there is no right or wrong way to gather news, but geography and size has a real bearing on how it is consumed.

[@MrSimbo65]

Thanks for that very interesting. it leads to better understanding. UK

[@neilbiggs1353]

I'm surprised about the lack of UK newspapers, I remember there being plenty of regional papers like the Leicester Mercury, Yorkshire Evening Post, East Anglian Daily Times, Express And Star... Even the smaller areas would tend to have weekly papers for the very local news, though possibly they have tried to go online now as I don't see the free local papers in my area any more

[@Lily-Bravo]

I feel very lucky that I grew up 22 miles from France which was visible on sunny days across the sea, and it called me and tempted me to go and see what there was beyond.

[@jrswinhoe58]

In my town we have The Chorley and Leyland Guardian weekly paper with local news and advertisers plus jobs and sales.

[@PhilipShand]

Imagine how shocked Americans are going to be when they find out Europe has cars & the UK has electricity........

[@carolineb3527]

We're getting running water next week, I'm excited. 😁

[@Slartifartblast]

The most shocking thing is that there are Americans that actually think like this... 😂

[@DB-stuff]

Across the whole of the UK ? Or just in London

[@RichWoods23]

@@Slartifartblast Yeah, I've met some. "Oh say, you guys have clothes washers!" "Yes, and kettles. Wait until you meet the kettles."

[@pinknylon1121]

One of my friends was asked by an American guy she was chatting to if she'd ever heard of Iphones

[@BenRattigan]

I always remember being on holiday in Orlando in early 1990s (pre-internet) and it was impossible to get news outside the US.

[@Molikai]

Also let's note 'fox news' is *officially* described as an 'entertainment show 'rather than a news show.

[@John-kj7tv]

And, ironically, that means fox news operates at a higher level of integrity than CNN or MSNBC who are still pretending they're news channels.

[@FranzBieberkopf]

Fox only says that so they don't get sued for defamation when they carry obviously false news. They had to cough up almost $800 million a while ago after their coverage of the 2020 election. specifically for false coverage of a voting machine manufacturer

[@shed66215]

The Daily Express is a national paper, but they, at least use to, print one for the southern part of the UK and another edition for the north. Major national stories would be the same but some stories more cantered around north/south would be in each respective edition - this is more noticeable when looking at sports reports. Local newspaper for the town you visited - when did you visit as against when the paper was printed? If they have a high readership the store where you went may have sold out. The paper for our town has a centralised printer - two papers by the same publisher but the front page and some stories within for each of the two major towns that they cover (10miles apart as crow flies), and both are sold in major supermarkets within both towns, though not at 50/50 ratio.

[@georgiaearnshaw1431]

In our area we have The Manchester Evening News. A local newspaper that's been going since 1868.

[@hikaru9624]

I think the Highlands still has the Northern times among a few others.

[@clnre]

This is a great analysis of the difference between US and UK news. When I first visited the US I was amazed that the TV news I watched was dominated by local issues and it was hard to find any international news on TV. You are correct that UK citizens are better educated on international events, but in the UK it is hard to get interesting up to date local news. In recent years local newspapers have closed and the BBC and ITV local news bulletins have also seen financial cut backs and now mainly fill their shows with prerecorded personal interest stories, rather that giving up to date news on what has been happening today.

[@davidwheaton9689]

I'm from the London borough of Islington .when I lived in Islington, it had its own newspaper just for the borough, Islington Gazette. Other boroughs in London had the same . I don’t know if that is still the case.

[@Marli-o4g]

Yes, it is still the case that we have a free local newspaper in the London Borough of Bromley.

[@seanmcmichael2551]

Has the blue-collar dog window thing happened yet, GGL ? Hate to think of it working harder than those softy white-collar dogs.

[@PhilipGuyers]

A lot of local newspapers died off during Covid as they relied on advertising to survive.

[@minimeee04]

Oh your back and have been for quite a while i've re subscribed.

[@JohnPilling25]

I grew up in Bury, Lancashire though I now live in Florida. My grandparents owned a newsagents shop. Aside from the daily national papers, every evening except Sunday there was the Manchester Evening news and the Bolton Evening News; twice a week we had the Bury times. I had a paper round and had to deliver this lot everyday, Friday morning was hell with the addition of many copies of the Bury Times to deliver along with all the national papers. So I knew who read The Sun, The Daily Telegraph etc. The papers had to be pushed through the letter box in the front door of the houses that were having the "paper" delivered. The paperboys had to deliver the Radio Times, TVTimes, Women's Weekly etc. plus the comics as well - you names it. In the states there is only 1 paper delivered - or rather I should say "thrown" onto your driveway, and that is the local paper.

[@colingibson7324]

Objective news (non selective) is all about interstellar dust. Never apologise for making decisions regarding relevance. Never expect to escape the accusation of being biased.

[@shmuelparzal]

I get the impression that larger cities and counties in the UK will have local papers. I live in Lincolnshire, and we have the Lincolnshire Echo - although I think it is only weekly now (for most of its history it was a daily)

[@KC-gy5xw]

The Daily Fail is more US centric than UK. Hate it.

[@davew4998]

Tell me more about the pies... Seriously though, that was another great video. Very interesting. Does that balance of local vs national vs international news still hold true in your major cities such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco? Or do these have more emphasis on national and international news?

[@Lily-Bravo]

I entered the classroom for my teaching shift at the local village primary school to find they had been having a "current affairs" lesson and ended up seeing live coverage of the Twin Towers second plane impact.

[@boblordylordyhowie]

I am generally a happy person because I don't do news, hell, I am lucky if I know what is going on in the town.

[@arwenwoods5722]

I find it easier to get my news from the radio as I can listen during my commutes to and from work - I imagine it could be the same for many people in the UK. Though when there is a big news story, my BBC news app will notify me and I can put the time the aside to check it out. Also, getting news from print is easier in the UK if you use public transport as the Metro is a free paper handed out at train and bus stations. Before I could drive, I'd always grab a copy.

[@davidjones332]

The preponderance of national newspapers in the UK is really a function of the small size of the country and the ease with which national newspapers can be distributed. It was a sad day when the Manchester Guardian relocated to London, as regional papers like the Yorkshire Post, Western Mail and Northern Echo used to be an effective counter to the London bias of Fleet Street, though in fairness the Daily Express used to have a Northern Edition printed in Manchester. Most of the larger European countries still have few national papers and many more regional ones.

[@glastonbury4304]

Weve got loads of local papers in the UK...and you have local news on tv as well...

[@Lily-Bravo]

I am 71, and from the moment we had television, when I was about 7, and started seeing American programmes of which there were many, we were quickly educated about the differences in our cultures and language. I had my first Tshirts and jeans and sneakers (still my everyday uniform). My parents loved language and words and had humorous books which listed the differences and I read them with relish. It seems to me that the reverse interest is now occurring with the help of KZbin and people like yourself who are spreading the word to your home countries. Now you have got the more superficial differences done and dusted, you are doing a great job at presenting the real reasons we Brits will put up with our changeable damp climate!

[@simonmeadows7961]

I often like to try to put the UK news into better context by seeing how it's covered elsewhere, so i often browse the International section of the websites of Der Spiegel, Le Monde, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald and the Times of India. One that caught my eye this week on the New York Times website was that in the International news section, 3 of the top 5 articles were about the US presidential election...

[@Peterraymond67]

In Jan 1994 my employer moved me to Staten Island (NY) for 6 months. During my stay there was heavy snow with roads blocked. Then a Gas Pipeline blew up in New Jersey just across the NY border. I rang home speaking to a mate of mine. He told me about the snow and the NJ pipeline and when I mentioned it to my two US colleagues. First they were amazed that the heavy snow in NY made UK news, the 2nd point they didn’t know about the NJ explosion. The remarks of the explosion were “It didn’t happen here why is it on UK News?”. My only idea that the UK gets more news is that we were a colonising country with an Empire to manage.

[@davidholden2658]

There are still some regional papers in the UK. I can't speak for the rest of the country but in the Midlands we still have the Birmingham Mail and the Express and Star but I suspect the circulation is far lower these days. Both of these are evening papers and back in the seventies and eighties it wasn't unusual for people to buy a national paper int he morning and the local one in the evening. I don't know how common it was in other areas for the local papers to be evening papers though.

[@Johnmillward9092]

NO The Uk has both local and national print

[@alantheskinhead]

My parents lived in Vegas for a while and often drove around and stopped in cafes to and ended up talking to people. They said they came from England. some of them had absolutely no idea where England was. In some parts of "Banjo Country" as my dad called it, some had never heard of the United Kingdom and were unaware that that the US was a continent! One thing they did go on about was the adverts..... Wall to wall adverts. you would be watching a news broadcast about something important then a advert for piles would come on! Also they hated the way Americans clapped and "Ye-Haa" at anything even in shows on Broadway, they seem to clap at anything and everything. One thing my dad really hated was the use of "Sir"! Yes Sir, No Sir, Three bags full Sir! One thing Americans did like was their accents!

[@pinknylon1121]

The calling everyone sir or ma'am freaks me out. I've never addressed anyone that way in my life, it's servile and pathetic

[@potownrob]

Unable to stay focused since London Girl looks too good with her hair pulled back and hoodie on 🔥

[@deanbull7767]

Just the order of the news tells you all you need to know about how educated the folk of the two countries are.

[@vkdrk]

Where I live, we do have local news like Bristol Post, BBC West, BBC Radio Bristol etc but I do enjoy watching national and international news. Being from a small country (Slovakia), our national news are closely tied to international (EU/Eurozone) news so I was always aware of was going on in other countries + there are a lot of worldwide news, including world weather forecast. When I was in my teens, I used to watch ''sex news'', it was all about new trends, clubs, fetishes, porn stars etc. (they don't need to censor anything after 10pm). All I can remember from US TV channels is police chasing someone or maybe I'm just unlucky and that's what's going on whenever I turn on the TV in US hotels lol

[@adfe8921]

Wow! Super interesting and well researched! I think I've enjoyed this video the most of all that you've made. It has definitely increased my understanding of both where the US populations seeming "obliviousness" to international events comes from, and gave some very interesting insight as to what Brits find trustworthy or not. 👍👍👍

[@leegoodison]

Why did the vampire read the newspaper ? He heard it had a good circulation 😊

[@peterrauth118]

There is a difference between "perception/perspective" in terms of reporting, and outright political bias, which is endemic in FOX, CNN, Newsmax, MSNBC etc, and now here with GB News. I'm pleased that our news channels have largely remained impartial.

[@carolineroberts9329]

Your observations where so interesting and accurate

[@arthurtownsend8843]

Interesting article. In England we used to have a lot of weelky local papers (where I lived we had two) and latterly the idea of free local papers funded by advertisements. Sadly the rise of social media and immediate sharing of local news items killed off the papers as the generations coming through don't buy papers.