US-Centric News Bias

Who cares about this, even inside the US?

The outside world being outside of America where pretty much no one cares?

To be fair, remember also that this happened in the US, and there are plenty of people who are tuned into what is going on closer to home.We're not all Americans here.Although if I was going to comment on something very specific to the US and wasn't quite sure what it was about, I'd probably do some fact-finding beforehand.

You forgot there are people outside US? Outside its media bubble

It doesn't matter what it is, or where it's happening in the world, some people will always make it about the US. Always. It's tiresome.

Are you at all interested in what's going on outside the U.S. ?

Then explain why anybody outside the US even cares?

Many of us are well aware of what’s happening in the US, and also deeply concerned by what we see abroad.The comment that started this subthread gave no indication that they were unaware of the state of things in the US…you’re arguing against people and behavior that might be real but doesn’t exist in the comment in question.

> I can understand why people don’t want to see this discussion here, especially users who aren’t American and thus aren’t directly affectedTBH from Europe I can sense already some news fatigue. US defaultism is palpable, especially considering that the US is perceived not as the biggest or most important - we are talking about 300mil people - but rather as the loudest, noisiest kid in the back of the room, which honestly isn't even that funny, interesting or brilliant.

Interesting, thanks for the insight! Hard to judge what's going on in the US sometimes from the other side of the pond :)