I second that, Trev.
I had a lengthy and quite informative ICQ chat with Technick about news programs. Now, I have my homepage set to a page that has news threads and I watch the morning local news and usually part of the "Today" show. It isn't like I'm avoiding the planet. Technick, however, watches BBC news and Canadian news, etc., and knew things about this little blue marble of which I had been sadly uninformed. I felt completely and totally dumb for a while. I knew the US news was "shite," but I hadn't fully realized what a large amount of "shite" it was.