US media don't have resident experts around the world, as European media do. And it shows. (ُEven when good correspondents want to stay and cover a story or country for an extended period, they are often not permitted their editors). They send their highly-paid, and highly promoted "foreign correspondents" to countries they don't understand, and where people speak a language that they can't comprehend. Look at this feature on Lebanon in the New York Times's Sunday section. I mean, you don't need to know much about Lebanon to know that the person who wrote this knows close to nothing on Lebanon: "Carlos Edde, a prominent Christian politician..." Enough said. This is like saying that Lyndon LaRouche is a "prominent US politician."