Americans look elsewhere for news

I've been telling Keith about how I've noticed that a lot of American bloggers (James Duncan Davidson in particular) are looking at blogs to get their news fixes. I've considered that this stems from US news networks/sites/etc. not objectively reporting the current Iraq "crisis". Of note, Andrew pointed me at an article outlining the way the current US administration is using the media to push its agenda (I'd also heard of recent press conferences where the Bush camp handed out pre-baked questions, and only called for question from reporters who were willing to ask the questions). Looks like wired have picked up on the thread, and have posted an article on the subject. What is interesting to me (apart from the obvious) is that the ABC news site is getting a lot of hits from US-ians looking for objective coverage. buzz.weblogs.com has more articles on the matter. In fact this site looks rather scathing... an interesting read!