In Defense of Anglophilia
Posted: May 15th, 2010 | Author: Maha Rafi Atal | Filed under: Britain, Culture, Journalism, Politics, Technology | Tags: Afghanistan, David Cameron, European Union, Gordon Brown, Iran, Labour, Tory, UK elections | 1 Comment »Regular readers of this blog, as well as followers of my Twitter and Reader feeds, will know that for many months, I have been obsessed by the British general election. Earlier this week, my friend and True/Slant blogger Ethan Epstein chastised American journalists for over-hyping this story at the expense of more significant elections, like the August ouster of the Liberal Democrats in Japan.
To be sure, in their domestic political contexts, the recent Japanese or (I might add) Chilean elections were milestones that deserved better treatment from the media. But from the perspective of U.S. media outlets concerned primarily with American foreign policy, the British election carries weight. Read the rest of this entry »