'News of the World' Fallout, Next Stop: The U.S.

Americans are, by and large, a self-centered people. We just don’t pay much attention to other countries, or to their media. That’s true of the British media as well—the little knowledge of it that we do have here only deepens our confusion about it. We know it’s odd by our standards, that it plays by its own set of rules. But we don’t really understand it.