<p>Video from Public Radio International's Alisa Miller. <br /><!--cut and paste--></p> <p> <script type="text/javascript">writeFlash({"FlashVars":"","quality":"high","allowScriptAccess":"always","bgcolor":"#FFFFFF","scale":"noscale","wmode":"window","src":"http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf","width":"432","height":"285"});</script> </p> globalization, media, celebrity, politics, pop culture, attention, internet, cable, world, entertainment multimedia 0 2008-08-15T17:21:21-04:00 <p>It won't come as a surprise to many, but the dumbing down of America's news-o-tainment networks has severely restricted our access to information about the rest of the world. Yet increasingly the most important issues are global in their scope. Here's an excellent presentation explaining the consumer and business forces behing the closing of the American media.</p> 5 1682 u-s-media-cuts-international-coverage-when-we-need-it-most 2008-08-15T17:21:40-04:00 true false true false false #<Image:0x2ab387b54838> 2008-09-17T03:36:08-04:00 11 305