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Policy announcement: News from the United States

The Romans had an empire built on engineering, we Brits had an empire built on trade and the Americans now have an empire built on media.

Perhaps therefore it is inevitable that the most tedious details about life in the United States will wing its way around the world and people from different nations will gawp open-mouthed at some event or other that will not affect them in any way at all.

But let's get a handle on this. Here is a map of the world. You will note that the United States is coloured in red.

You may also have noticed that in terms of the world, it really does form just a tiny bit of the globe we all inhabit. It's round about the same size as Australia or China or Brazil, but how often do you read hundreds of words about the love life of one of their minor actresses?

Yes, yes, there were those 9 November attacks which of course were hugely significant in terms of world events. But what has really happened on US soil since then? And do we really care?

Meanwhile in the rest of the world there is warfare, corruption, egomania, repressive laws — the very meat and potatoes of satire.

As such, from now on we will attempt to concentrate a little less on the self-obsessed American culture and cover more important events in the world.

This also means that if anyone wants to write us a story, concentrating on non-US events will increase your chances of getting on the site. Equally, we would like to encourage people from different countries to satirise their news and send it to us. You can use a pseudonym and we will never reveal your details to anyone.

That is The Rockall Times's official policy regarding news from America.

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