But it is hard to argue that it is better than the stuff supplied by the New York Times or foreign papers sources to which the residents of Los Angeles now have unfettered, largely free access via their laptops and iPhones.
On Thursday morning the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Irish Foreign Minister will exchange papers to establish the North-South Institutions.
Foreign capital has enabled many papers to modernise their production processes, improving print quality and layout.
He of course famously said that it was not necessary to read all the papers to be a good Foreign Secretary - he certainly tested that theory to destruction.
French judges investigating misuse of funds in 1989-93 by Elf , then a state-run oil company, were denied access to papers detailing bribes paid to foreign firms to win contracts.
In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.
Papers or magazines that have gutted foreign bureaus can now tap into open-source efforts like Ushahidi ( see story).
Patrick Salmon, the Foreign Office historian who compiled the volume of papers published on Friday as German Unification 1989-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas Section III Volume VII, says Mrs Thatcher's trenchant objections made little practical difference.
National papers also cover the visit by Mongolian foreign minister Gombojab Zandanshatar.
BBC: China morning round-up: Inflation and economy discussed
The newly-released personal papers released uncover a heated exchange between Downing Street and the Foreign Office over the menu for the official banquet she was to host for the Chinese leadership.
Meanwhile, papers including the China Daily also report on the comment by Wang Shouwen, foreign trade head at the Ministry of Commerce, which warns that China's foreign trade " is facing a severe situation next year".
Papers published by U.S. researchers were much more likely to have had foreign co-authors, which the SciVal analysts think means that the U.S. is more collaborative as well as being a bigger research force.
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