Just an out of interest question.

Do you keep up with the 'happenings' back home? When I very first moved here I did, then for a while I didn't really bother, CNN was about my only news, now I am again keeping up with the regional news and the little community news paper that is posted online once per week. Maybe because I am going through one of my home sick spells... who knows.

I usually keep up with what's going on in the country generally.

I don't make a conscious effort to keep up with news from the UK but, since US news both in print and on TV is so awful I get most of my news from reading the Economist and from the BBC web site so I inevitably pick up some UK news as part of that.

Is the US media biased about what goes on over there? Do they try to "Dumb down" the news for local T.V?

Nope, its just that most Americans prefer their news with sugar on it.

I read the Telegraph online every day now and listen to NPR in the car usually between CD's.

Every Saturday morning, Radio 4 live goes on the computer and is broadcast thru the house all day. Oops, look at the time - time to tune in again.

the bbc webpage is my homepage so i check that daily. still trying to get into the habit of watching US news but if i go near the TV the kids moan til cartoons go on so i tend not to have the tv on all day.

Interesting comment - I find that it's always about who was killed overnight, crime, natural disasters, etc. Never thought of it as overly sugary aside from maybe a local special interest story.

One difference between UK and US media is that as far as I know the USA posesses nothing like the Daily Mail, whose primary agenda seems to be to run the UK down. Any mainstream print publication in the USA which started off down that road would probably get run out of town fairly swiftly.

i read the bbc everyday! but that is about it. unfortunately.

so do I, plus the Guardian (they have the best football section of any online UK newspaper) and Sky News - good for pictures.

yeah whenever I can.... mostly snippet stuff.
My mum even went the length to buy me a subcription to "The Week" in pity of lacking current affairs over here .. (bless her). Every week I have it sitting in the mail box.

not quite keeping up with news, but is it possible to get private eye in US?

its a bit of a hunt.. I've bought it in the past. decent newstands should be able to get it for you - even try borders, barnes & nobles too.

http://www.amazon.com/Private-Eye-En...6804523&sr=1-1

Back in UK I used to read the Daily Mail, so sometimes I jump onto their website but I have found that lately it's gone a bit crappy with far too much showbiz and celebrity gossip. So I have taken to reading the Telegraph for some proper news, of late!
I also like listening, via the web, to the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 which normally discusses daily current affairs and I love listening to the various regional accents of the people who phone in to the show, makes me a tad homesick but in a nice way!
Oh and if I'm in the mood, Sunday Love Songs with Steve Wright, all together now "aahhhh" (or pass the bucket, whichever way you're feeling )

I know a few Americans who watch the BBC World News, they all seem to like the style reporting, more factual I guess.