media

was on dial-up last week, so i just avoid the Internet altogether. so here’s my post from last week, now able to publish it and all…

News around the world changes from place to place. If any person believes globalization leads to a merging of the cultures, they should try watching news or channels from other countries. Personally, my roommate and I love watching the Russian channel, and I used to watch German news for my German class last year. There are such differences, it makes it seem impossible that all of these different cultures are going to be the same one day. Even in the States, the news is so different from each state. Media is a huge influence on many things, and i just found several diffences between the area I’m from in Pennsylvania, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Fredericksburg is close to several cities, Washington and Richmond are only a step away. The news here really does horrify me, I do not even watch the news anymore. It is filled with not much more than murder and violence. At home, probably the most exciting thing on the news is about how Rocky Ridge will be opening their Annual Christmas Lights up soon. Trust me, the Christmas lights are not that exciting, they are actually left up all year round and just unplugged after January 1st. Even when something tragic happens, like when one of my friends slipped off a cliff and was killed, the coverage is minimum. I found out more about his death on myspace than from the television news and papers. The media seems to live on fear here, wheares opposed to lil’ old York and Lancaster, the media prefers to cover the crowd at Circut city this morning when the doors opened at 4am or how Tanger Outlets opened up at midnight (it’s now called red-eyed thursday instead of black Friday, apparently). Or up in Canada, the news is even more boring. Just found it odd that little distance made such a huge difference in the media news.