AN ARAB-AMERICAN journalist notes that many of the misunderstandings between the US and the so-called Arab street stem from the myopic view and botched reporting by the Arab media's Washington correspondents, who rarely venture outside the Beltway and so they don't really know to explain to their home audiences how America's political life and society really work.

David Kaspar's Medienkritik, where I saw the article, says that this is exactly what also happens in Germany. And in Spain, I should add. It's a EU-wide phenomenon.

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