Reading foreign news websites is a most enlightening process. We learn things and read perspectives not found in our controlled US media. Not that other media are not controlled to some extent also, but the controls are different and the goals are different - which makes for a diverse news process. Albeit, somewhat inadvertently.

Even the British have serious controls on news. They have prior restraint laws which we don't. And there are news organizations that voluntarily never print some things for us Americans. As an example, for the past couple weeks we have not heard about killing in Fallujah. Why? Because we supposedly "conquered" that city. But fighting continues and American kids continue to be killed there. Now we are told they were killed in Anwar province, which is true. Sort of like saying they were killed in Iraq, or the Middle East.

You might read an opinion piece formerly in the Gulf News by Adel Safty. He is a professor in Turkey and he writes about "Monolithic corporations can make societies sick". Check it out. And check out other foreign sites. Liberal or conservative, we should seek the truth and practice critical thinking.