The Problem With Parochial News Coverage

I think it is OK for news to be parochial. I worked on a newspaper in Adelaide and everything was about what's the Adelaide angle. But my problem is it's almost kind of like a, well, I hope it's a willful ignorance. For example, if a new building got built in America, that was taller than every other building in America, but it was shorter than the Burj Khalifa. And then the American news ran a story about this new building and called it the biggest building ever. This is not the World Series to decide the world champions. They crown the world champions of baseball every year based on who won a domestic US competition. Well, it does