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"What do you expect? Euro's get spoonfed by BBC and CNN International (which is actually WORSE than CNN here)"

Your right. The only TV news I get here is CNN International, and their coverage makes me puke.
They have eased up a little in the past few days, but for the first week, they could not have been any worse with
the anti Bush rants and their tone of disgust. All of the
Katrina CNN news has been feeds from the US CNN.
I am sure the BBC has been just as disgusting, but I have not seen it.
The print media here is all like the NYT.

Another problem is that Europeans have the "Nanny State"
concept. They expect everything comes from the national government, and do not have a concept of state and county
government functions.
In Addition, they have no concept of the size of the disaster area.

On a European forum, I had to fight tooth and nail to
counter the misconceptions that members had been fed, such
as their understanding that the Levee failure was ALL the fault of Bush, their was no national guard because they are all in Iraq, and Katrina was a result of the US night signing Kyoto.....thats just how bad it is here.

I post links to good sources such as TechCentral, but it is a real uphill battle.