ITN We obviously got off on the wrong foot big time By all means I encourage you to nominate stories you feel are worthy of posting If you can do so without making insulting comments about Americans or how the story would be posted if it happened in the US etc we won t have any further problems If you look at my actual contributions I supplied a list in the ITN thread you ll see 19 21 stories I wrote this year are not US based items Most of these would have never been posted if I didn t write the stories I do read American news source which believe it or not does report international news quite well but I also regularly check Australian Indian and South African news Between these I see most important stories South America is the only region I rarely see stories from which is due to my inability to read Spanish not intentionally omission In practical terms I do more to combat systematic bias in the news than almost anyone else As a measure of good faith tell which which you d rather I write the vagina transplant story or the china water story and I will write the article Since I already wasted most of my evening arguing it probably won t be tonight but I will write the article