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Is global communication bringing everyone together?
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Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:42:54 GMT
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An interesting article by George PAcker in NYT - free reg reqd.
"In some ways, global satellite TV and Internet access have actually made
the world a less understanding, less tolerant place. What the media provide
is superficial familiarity -- images without context, indignation without
remedy."
"It is possible, of course, for media attention to galvanize action. Because
of a newspaper photo, ordinary citizens send checks or pick up rocks. On the
whole, knowing is better than not knowing; in any case, there's no going
back. But at this halfway point between mutual ignorance and true
understanding, the ''global village'' actually resembles a real one -- in my
experience, not the utopian community promised by the boosters of
globalization but a parochial place of manifold suspicions, rumors,
resentments and half-truths. If the world seems to be growing more, rather
than less, nasty these days, it might have something to do with the images
all of us now carry around in our heads."
ROSCO
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