Last week I sat in a bus and I was looking at the TV screen which shows all the bus stops. After we went on the highway the screen showed a short TV-program about some guy who was showing how you could design your own individual sneaker. At the bottom of the screen news items were displaced, mostly about the Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Media is getting more integrated in to our daily lives, when finding a Metro or Spits in a train or reading news at www.nu.nl in class on your mobile phone. Even when you are on vacation in Italy you can buy a Dutch newspaper at the local supermarket, quite handy and sick at the same time.
Just something to thing about: the disaster that recently happened in Haiti was (globally) all over the news after a few minutes after it happened, but for the rescue helpers it took hours to get to the area. It should be the other way around when you think of it. Since when is spreading news more important than giving first aid.
But media it is not all bad news, because after seeing the disaster on TV Dutch people donated millions to the fund to help the victims and reconstruct the city. Media is getting more and more powerful. Just that you know!
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