Good-bye, World

In an English online article, article author Jeffrey Blyth reports that American newspapers are drastically scaling back foreign news.

Evidently, newspapers in the United States cannot afford to keep journalists who report on world news. And this is even at a time when we need news from abroad more than ever.

It's as if we are saying that we don't care about what happens in the world anymore. That is a scary thought, because we need to be more aware of what's going on in the world more than at any other time in history. Take the attacks of September 11 as an example. Is it possible that we would have taken more precautions on airport checkpoints if we knew that there were inklings of rampant anti-American sentiment in the Middle East? Could we have prevented such attacks if we, the general public, had any idea of what was happening overseas?

In my opinion, Americans in general tend to be blase about world news. It's time we open our eyes to what's happening all over the globe, not just the United States.