I think there is a bias due to the fact that, for evident reasons - this site in an English-speaking one, we tend to quote media that have an English-speaking website. This means we tend to quote mainly Anglo-Saxon media. Also it seems to me (I might be wrong) that media from other countries that have an English website are most of the time right-wing leaning ones. "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
But in the English-language media bubble, I would caution against taking the content of detailed coverage as representative of coverage in terms of framing public policy debate. The existence of reasonably careful, well-informed coverage is one thing ... the total audience receiving careful, well-informed coverage versus the total audience receiving the impression common to the DC Village and the Murdoch machine is also a matter to take into account. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
(remember Thatcher: continental Europe is where all the problems of the 20th century have come from, and the Anglo-Saxon world where all the solutions have come) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I suppose there is "Western" as in the FT and then there is "Western" as when you stand at the Pointe du Raz, and the next land is America. Then France is Western Europe all right...
