People are starved for news because we are not getting it. we get the same fluff stories over and over and over, every day...
whoever is not seeing the news from other countries, states, can only blame themselves if they have a computer.
Here's a list of more newspapers - at home and abroad - than you'd ever have time to read.
I like to compare the reporting on a major story in other newspapers, especially European.
http://www.world-newspapers.com/