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This blog focuses on how the European media cover the United States and the narrower field of how the U.S. media cover Europe. The aim is not so much to report news as to illustrate the different journalistic approaches on either side of the Atlantic and among the various European countries, as well to highlight European views of the United States and U.S. views of Europe.

This blog has recently been relaunched following a redesign of the Web site of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The blog is published under the auspices of the CSIS Transatlantic Media Network (TMN), but comments it contains do not reflect policies either of CSIS, which is bipartisan and does not take policy positions, or of the TMN.

The blog is also part of the World Affairs Blog Network of the Foreign Policy Association.

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The “Seesaw” of Sloppy Journalism
Nov 4, 2009
Overuse and misuse of the verb “to see” are spreading like a pandemic through much of the U.S. and British media. The habit is more than just ugly and unnecessary; it betrays a sloppiness of thinking that is dangerous among journalists, who should be masters of succinct and clear expression.
Sex change for Italy’s Leader – in Washington Post
Oct 13, 2009
"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi," writes columnist Anne Applebaum in The Washington Post, "has been accused of bribery, tax evasion, corruption and subversion of the press." He makes embarrassing jokes and is at war with the Italian legal est

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