The mainstream rags are taken as gospel truth by those living abroad, and this gives them a completely false picture of what is happening in the USA.
TIME, wapo, nyt, CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBC all print the same thing. No alternate news sources make it beyond our borders.
I take it you’ve never heard of the Daily Mail? A lot of American scandals and crimes get posted there before we see it in American media. I also happen to live in Spain and we get Fox News on our local cable service. Just in the past week they dropped the BBC news and added CNN International. If you want to see America painted in a bad light that would be your go-to source around here.