As far as the Finnish reporting goes, the news mostly came through wire services with not that many “personalized” articles, so very likely originally from the U.S. press or at least from some foreign source. I don’t think the matter was seen as being of enough importance to send a reporter over from here. The Finnish columnist for Aamulehti lived in Washington D.C., but I don’t think he had visited the scene. For the other European press I can’t say.

Kim, I’m not familiar with European news coverage of events in the U.S. generally, but I’m curious as to whether most of these European reports of the El Dorado incident were taking talking points from stories in the U.S. press (as the anecdote shared in your comment #3 indicates), or whether any news organizations sent reporters to the scene in Texas. Thanks again.

http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/11/07/deseret-part-deux/