Biased reporting in Europe of American politics: A debate

[Insula Dei]

There's no such thing as unbiased media. At the very best it just shares the bias of most of its consumers.

[Insula Dei]

To be fair, the existence of FOX news and the stuff it regularly says about Europe also doesn't help. Most media I follow have a 'major wtf' attitude towards the American right, exactly because of the things the American right seems to believ about Europe.

[Insula Dei]

I don't have the impression that most Americans get just what the European reaction to the Iraq war was like. It was not just that the war was impopular, but that it was widely seen as a crime against humanity and hated by the vast majority of Europeans. To this day the death of Coalition (mainly American) troops in Iraq is prone to elicit responses like 'what were they doing there in the first place?' or even 'seems like they got what they were looking for'.

[Insula Dei]

I don't have the impression that most Americans get just what the European reaction to the Iraq war was like. It was not just that the war was impopular, but that it was widely seen as a crime against humanity and hated by the vast majority of Europeans. To this day the death of Coalition (mainly American) troops in Iraq is prone to elicit responses like 'what were they doing there in the first place?' or even 'seems like they got what they were looking for'.

That's kind of idiotic though. And I say that as a European myself.

Well, I am not endorsing that kind of attitude, but I always have the impression that americans look at Europe's ressentment and think that the war was just impopular and not grasp just how reviled it was.