'Elderly American Dies' Is Not News
There’s a curious news situation going on here in Europe today.
All of the news sources of any significance, including the BBC, are running headline near-saturation coverage on the death of Edward Kennedy in the United States.
Yet, aside from some Irish, I have not met or heard of one single European today who cares, other than perhaps in a kind of “An old guy died? That’s a shame, but it happens…” way. That’s the way I feel too. Sure we have heard of his name, but that’s really all.
The European press have clearly now realised this as they are starting to try to make us think that we should care, but we still don’t as the best they can do is stuff like this;
Anchor; “So tell us why he was such an important figure”.
American being interviewed: “Well, he was extremely important, he was family of JFK, for example, and he was almost like a president himself”.
That’s just not going to do it for Europeans. We don’t know the guy, and never did.
So, maybe we can have some other news now that doesn’t assume that we are all Americans? Because we’re not, you know.
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