According to Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation, the ubiquitous golden arches of McDonald's are now, "more widely recognised than the Christian cross."
Ah globalisation, (or rather, Americanisation) I still remember the days when I walked for kilometres to school, barefoot in the snow with a bag of broken biscuits, the good old days.
Actually it was more like walking for one kilometre in my Nike's, can of Coke in hand and the latest toy from my Coco Pops box.
And now they tell me my information is globalised as well. Frankly, I'm surprised.
I recently began an experiment where I no longer watch/listen/read the news, an interesting choice to make when you're a journalism student I know. However, I've found people to be so engrossed with the pessimistic doom and gloom of the news that it dominates conversation and, if quizzed, I could still tell you everything that happened in the last news week.
I would bet, someone died, someone had an 'incident' while intoxicated, politician's peddled spin and Brad and Angie were rumored to be separating, again. Is this globalised information? Is this the format we really want?
With approximately four major news agencies (predominantly American) feeding our news to our journalists what do we expect? Theorists, all of which we have studied for the last three years, have been telling us the sad state of affairs for a long time. But I think we no longer need to be told the problems, but rather given the solutions.
So come on Conley, Lamble, Cunningham and Turner, what can we do?
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Hurrah Nikki!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's fascinating to see what we as news consumers have become absorbed with. It is definitely a bold move for you to have knocked off watching/listening/ or reading the news but you seem to have just about grabbed the headline stories across all platforms of Journalistic news this week.
Although I think Brad and Ange were good this week, but don't quote me on that.
These are the "days of our lives..."
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