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Byline: Rod Nordland, Stefan Theil, Adam B. Kushner and Sudip Mazumdar, Christopher Werth, Pat Wingert and Daniel Stone
Media Matters: Why Britain's P.M. Is Popular Abroad But Hated At Home
When Gordon Brown went on his second official visit to the United States in mid-April, all three presidential candidates made time to meet him--Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton even took a morning off from their fierce campaigning in Pennsylvania. Yet the British press corps used the occasion to slam the prime minister for his timing, which coincided with--and let him be overshadowed by--Pope Benedict XVI's stateside tour. Likewise, when Brown, at the end of his trip, ...