Media Frenzy and Spend, Spend, Spend..

I limit the amount of US T.V I watch...anything more than half an hour and I start to get angry..

The American media have had a free for all with Benet-Ramsey...their reporting of the case is as ugly as the crime itself.

America has a chat show host called 'Glenn Beck'. Glenn is probably in his 40s and has far too many opinions and far too little intelligence to be put on the American public. I find his 'this is what I know..' dangerous and it epitomises what Michael Moore was trying to illustrate in his documentaries..fear keeps the American public voting and fear controls.. Glenn proudly announced 9 out of 10 Americans think anyone who looks like they may be be from Iraq should be searched at the airport!

Apart from cities like NY or San Francisco, I do find some of the American attitudes to terrorism and immigration very disturbing indeed.

I think the level of consumerism is OVERWHELMING and the pressure of the American dream illustrated in Arthur Millar's 'Death of a Salesman', still apparent in many family units....Overheard the other day.. "What, you haven't got a pool?"

It is the only place where individuals have questioned my travels as a lone woman but equally promotes the independent, strong woman..??

Finally, there is clearly a great divide between city attitudes and middle America..Jim told me it was those same attitudes that drove him out of his hometown into the great wide world....