I’ve been in Europe for five days. In that time I’ve watched a fair bit of news on the BBC and broadcasts of CNN Europe and CNN Asia. While these TV news outlets are all covering the US presidential election on an almost hourly basis, I haven’t once seen these media outlets devolve into coverage of the daily he said-she said, gotcha exercise of false equivalencies. Instead, the English language European media outlets are covering substantive issues about how we will pick our President.

I’m not really keeping up on my blog reading, so I’m effectively cut out of the petty presidential politics that have become so tiresome over the last six to eight weeks. All in all, this style of ignoring the daily pie fights between campaigns strikes me as a much better way for the media to comport towards these elections.