I wonder if my fellow Americans rely on NBC, CBS and ABC for their news. If you do you're getting pablum instead of news.  Try watching the BBC or an online foreign news service. You will find out  that there is much more going on in the world than mudslides in Malibu and Britney is going back to treatment. We Americans can have the attitude that if it didn't happen here why should I worry about it. That's one reason people dislike Americans. Generally, we don't really care if it didn't happen in our borders.

That's not true at all; We pay attention to Alaska too.

We only care about Alaska when there's an oil spill or Sarah Palin says something stupid.

there's something called news?  if it isn't on FB or a forum i don't know about it.  :P

Exactly; we're looking at them all the time.