United States
Beyond the domestic Left-versus-Right argument: how the other 221 countries report the same day.
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Terra-Orb (https://terra-orb.com) shows exactly which stories US media under-report. It captures over 100,000 public articles a day from more than 30,000 outlets in 222 countries and 70+ languages, then compares American coverage of each event with worldwide coverage. Where the gap is widest, the story appears in the free blindspot feed, with political orientation, factuality and ownership labels on every source, and no account required.
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American newsrooms cover the world selectively, and that is not a conspiracy: it is the arithmetic of bureaus, budgets and audience interest. The consequence is that entire regions only appear in US coverage once a crisis is already under way. Terra-Orb measures that gap continuously, by comparing how American outlets and the rest of the world report the same events, hour by hour.
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The blindspot feed, the bias and factuality badges and the coverage comparator are open to everyone. Credits are only used for in-depth AI investigations.
Each card shows the share of outlets covering the region's stories that are American, against the share published everywhere else. Open a country barometer to check the live numbers yourself.
Global South and Arab-Muslim outlets lead the reporting.
Spanish and Portuguese city press dominates the volume.
Global South newsrooms report the domestic drivers first.
Arab-Muslim sphere carries the continuous reporting.
Sino-Russian sphere plus local-language press.
Island newsrooms report months before the strategic headlines.
Shares are recurring patterns observed in the Terra-Orb coverage comparator, not an audited statistic. Open any country or topic to check the live counts.
The same global gap lands differently in the Midwest, on the Gulf Coast, on the West Coast and across the South. Each desk below lists what local readers depend on and which foreign newsrooms report it first.
grain export news, fertiliser prices, Great Lakes shipping, Canada border trade
Farm belt income and manufacturing orders in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota move with Black Sea grain corridors, Latin American harvests and fertiliser supply — stories reported daily abroad, rarely in Midwest newsrooms.
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Ukraine · Brazil · Morocco
LNG export terminals, Houston energy news, Panama Canal delays, petrochemical supply
Gulf Coast LNG and petrochemical revenue depends on Panama Canal transit, Red Sea routing and Latin American and Gulf demand. Those shifts appear first in Panamanian, Emirati and Egyptian outlets.
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Panama · Qatar · Venezuela
Pacific shipping news, Taiwan Strait tensions, critical minerals, port congestion
Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Portland trade runs through Indo-Pacific corridors. Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Australian newsrooms report semiconductor, minerals and shipping risk weeks before US coverage.
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Taiwan · Indonesia · Chile
defence industry news, Central America migration drivers, Caribbean security, Atlantic shipping
Defence plants in Georgia, Alabama, Virginia and the Carolinas, plus migration arrivals across Florida and Texas, track events in Central America, Haiti and the Sahel long before they reach American front pages.
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Haiti · Guatemala · Honduras
English-language allies often read the world through American and British wires. Terra-Orb runs the same comparison for each of them, against 222 countries and 70+ languages.
Canada foreign policy news, Arctic sovereignty, NORAD, critical minerals agreements
Canadian coverage follows Washington closely, so Arctic shipping, NORAD modernisation and minerals diplomacy often reach Ottawa readers through American framing rather than from Nordic, Russian or Asian sources.
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Greenland · Norway · Russia
Australia foreign affairs news, AUKUS, Pacific islands influence, South China Sea
Australian security debate concentrates on AUKUS and China, while Melanesian, Indonesian and Timorese newsrooms report the governance, fisheries and climate stories that set the region's direction.
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Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Timor-Leste
UK foreign policy news, Red Sea shipping, European security, Commonwealth coverage
British coverage leans transatlantic and European. Red Sea and Gulf of Aden shipping, Sahel instability and Commonwealth politics are reported continuously in Arabic, French and African newsrooms.
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Yemen · Sudan · Nigeria
New Zealand foreign policy news, Pacific diplomacy, Antarctic governance, agricultural exports
New Zealand's interests sit in the Pacific and Antarctic and in Asian export markets, yet much of the available reporting arrives via Australian and American wires rather than island or Asian newsrooms.
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Fiji · Tonga · Samoa
| Ground News blindspots | Terra-Orb blindspots | |
|---|---|---|
| What the gap measures | Left versus Right coverage inside mostly US and UK media | American coverage versus 221 other countries, in 70+ languages |
| Blindspot feed access | Behind a paid subscription tier | Free, no account required |
| Outlets compared | Mostly English-language Western media | 30,000+ newsrooms, including local and city press |
| Non-Western viewpoints | Not part of the Left/Right axis | Four-sphere prism: Western, Sino-Russian, Arab-Muslim, Global South |
| Forward-looking reading | None beyond current bias ratings | Weak signals and impact chains at D+7, D+30 and D+90 |
Competitor details are taken from their published pages and may change.
Nothing is predicted by an external AI model: the gap is a count of published articles.
A story that is widely reported by media outside the United States but barely covered by American outlets, so an American reader never sees it. Terra-Orb detects these gaps by comparing coverage of the same event across 222 countries and 70+ languages.
Open the Terra-Orb coverage comparator, pick a country or topic, and compare the number of American outlets covering a story with the number of outlets covering it elsewhere. The blindspot feed lists the widest gaps automatically, free and without an account.
Yes. The world feed, bias and factuality badges, country barometers, early signals and the blindspot feed are free and require no account. Credits are only used for in-depth AI investigations.
Ground News measures Left versus Right coverage gaps inside mostly American and British media, and places the blindspot feed behind a paid plan. Terra-Orb measures gaps between American coverage and the rest of the world across 222 countries and 70+ languages, and keeps it free.
The widest and most persistent gaps sit in the Sahel and West Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the Pacific island states. These regions are reported daily by local and regional newsrooms, but appear in American media mainly when a crisis or a US strategic interest is already involved.
Grain and fertiliser markets, Great Lakes and Mississippi shipping, and Canadian border trade. Terra-Orb tracks Ukrainian, Brazilian, Moroccan and Canadian outlets reporting those markets before the effect reaches farm belt prices.
Panama Canal transit limits, Red Sea rerouting and Gulf and Latin American demand shifts drive LNG and petrochemical revenue from Texas and Louisiana. Panamanian, Emirati and Egyptian newsrooms report them continuously.
Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Portland trade depends on Taiwan Strait and South China Sea corridors, semiconductors and critical minerals. Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Australian outlets report those risks first.
Defence industry demand and the domestic drivers of Central American and Caribbean migration. Haitian, Guatemalan, Honduran and Colombian newsrooms cover them long before they reach American front pages.
Yes. Each country has its own barometer, and the same comparison runs for Canadian, British, Australian and New Zealand coverage: Arctic and NORAD for Canada, Red Sea and Sahel for the UK, Pacific islands and AUKUS for Australia, Pacific and Antarctic diplomacy for New Zealand.
No. Every outlet carries a documented political orientation, factuality and ownership label, and the same event is shown through a four-sphere prism (Western, Sino-Russian, Arab-Muslim, Global South) so the reader judges the gap themselves.
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