these are the main headlines on cnn.com/world at the moment:
Media reveal ‘black’ jails in China
Scores arrested in poaching raids
Velvet Revolution 20 years later
Shanghai lost in translation
Booze impacting Russian health
Air France plane forced to turn back over Atlantic Ocean
Iranian navy seizes racing yacht, British crew members
Obama relays Afghanistan strategy to top officials
Witnesses recall bloody siege at Rwandan college
Nations divided on recognizing Honduran president-elect
Government won’t guarantee Dubai World’s debt
Lawyer: Guards who helped Nazis ‘victims, not culprits’
U.S.-bound oil tanker hijacked off Somalia
31 children among dead in Bangladesh ferry disaster
Roads to a better Haiti
Counting two wars’ dead
Iran OKs 10 new nuke plants
Thai farmers allege slavery
Bin Laden ‘within our grasp’
Banks try to calm fears
as it seems to me its all super grim. the world according to cnn.com looks full of illiterate drunk people, horrible roads, slavery, nuclear weapons, nazis and dead children. and yeah there is one guy who “slouches over his Hewlett-Packard laptop” (super cheesy product placement!) and counts the dead.
what if the cnn.com would present the world like this:
Chinese are very hospitable people and willing to learn your language
Delights of the French food and countryside
Japan and China make partnerships which benefit both nations and the region
Check out the Russian classics
Mexican’s are good businessmen
Iranian women are voted to be the most loyal partners
Arabian art amazes in Paris
South East Europeans are welcomed in EU without visas, nations and cultures come closer
Internet domain names have been internationalized
Swiss government has donated 10 million Swiss Francs to African developing countries in Africa
Congo economists find solutions to support local business growth
Family budgets are growing after parents learned not to overspend
…