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PBS regularly provides some of America's best international coverage. The New York Times studies terrorist videos from a cinematic perspective. And America's self-styled "silent majority" -- Bush voters -- find their voice.
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The US mainstream media doesn't usually get high points for international coverage -- unless it is PBS, the public broadcasting service. PBS offers the nationally broadcast "Frontline World" and its accompanying Web site, which run in-depth stories from around the world. PSB also teams up veteran broadcasters with rising talents from American journalism schools. The show  recently sent student fellows to Afghanistan to track the burgeoning democracy and to Europe, where a Hungarian student traced the continent's changing demography from Paris to Istanbul along the route of the Orient Express.

In a New York Times essay, writer Michael Ignatieff looks at the recent wave of terrorist videos and asks the uncomfortable question: Is it art ?

Kerry voters are famously wringing their hands over Bush's re-election. But what about Bush voters? They too have a message for Europe, delivered in a blog called not sorry everybody . This isn't a new phenomenon. Check out the pro-war and pro-Bush slogans developed by Protest Warrior .