By and large, the French coverage of this election has been excellent: informed, thoughtful, and worth reading in its own right. This can almost never be said of US coverage of events in France. Maybe it's time we start to look outward again? lemonde.fr/idees/article/…
Some honorable exceptions: @nytimes coverage of the fire at Notre Dame was better than any French newspaper's. But when it comes to French politics or culture, US coverage is generally absurd. And don't even get me started on US coverage of, say, Turkey.
I've written many times about the collapse of coherent foreign news coverage in the US, and their are economic and structural reasons for this that are very hard to overcome. But it's genuinely essential to crack this problem: The rest of the world exists, and we're a part of it.
We need to have robust, high-quality foreign news coverage, and now that every waking moment of my life isn't devoted to thinking about the President, maybe I can get to work on that.
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