Media dumbing down

Compare these three countries and the current affairs fare:

World Tonight: UK

• US and Iran break 30 years of silence
• How life has changed in Russia under Putin
• A new leader for Israel's Labour party.
• What does it really take to write a novel?
• As pressure on Sudan mounts we talk to the UN special envoy there.
• Anyone for whale curry?

Today Tonight Australia

• woman steals daughter's trust fund
• man appears on two quiz shows simulataneously
• after death experiences

Insider CBS Los Angeles

• Brad Pitt is interviewed
• a look at the film "Knocked Up.