American Views Abroad

 
Der Spiegel, one of Germany's leading news magazines (and weighing in at about three times the size of Time or Newsweek) now has an English language on-line look at Germany and the world, Spiegel International http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international. In order to access the site which has news, features and opinion pieces, a one time registration process needs to be filled out. The site is free and international archives are available.

There is a summary of editorials of important German newspapers, Fishwrap, and this past week the US elections were covered in two such wrap-ups: Gasping the Second Coming of Bush, immediately following the election and in the archives, as well as The Bush Hangover: Day Two.

In an opinion piece from Washington, Mathias Mueller von Blumencron writes in How Did it Happen? (available in the archives section):

'Most underestimated how idiosyncratic Americans really are. What was it that concealed those differences from Europeans (or the editorialists at America's East Coast newspapers, for that matter)? ....... And, yet again, they underestimated the Midwest. Hardly any European (and, indeed, only some of the people in the US metropolises) can imagine the tedious wasteland that exists between Florida and the Dakotas. In this region, the horizon is always straight ahead, the heavens are like a high ceiling and God is never far away. Bush decisively built his campaign on the pious people who live here.'

Der Spiegel is, of course, available on line in German at www.spiegel.de.



- posted by Gloria @ 11:58 AM