It's ironic that your implication is that the media should focus entirely on US problems to the exclusion of any other country's problems - and you think this will be unbiased
What is ironic is the coincidence of "look at shitty Russia with 14 year old brides" when a) US government is shutdown b) Snowden documents keep revealing NSA's dirt form under the carpet.
Only with a judge's approval -- which I doubt would be forthcoming -- particularly if the putative groom sat glumly through the hearing playing video games.
The internet is pretty much ruined in many ways now. Apart from the snooping, public opinion has become an open battlefield. Comments for any political article on any popular site are now full to the brim with obvious shills of all stripes.
we still have wikipedia, that alone justifies the cost of the internet. as a data scientist, I am particularly thankful for wikipedia and it's brethren like freebase as a real, up to date corpus and to some extend ontology.
