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This short video(4.5 minutes) is from the TED2008 conference and gives us an amazing albeit scary look at how absolutely full of crap our current news media is. Take a look I think you’ll be quite surprised as I was.
Those of you who are thinking “Well, HA! Jason I get my news from Google” or some other online news outlet you’re gonna love the last minute or so of this video. Basically the whole premise boils down to it is cheaper to cover Britney Spears then put news headquarters in third world countries.
Why am I writing about this? Well I guess you could say this is something that keeps me up at night. Our country is deeply under feed when it comes to world news and the tidbits we get are picked and chosen for us. It’s one of the reasons I decided to start blogging here and in general. We have to start learning about whats going on around the world because as Thomas L. Friedman says, “The world is flat” by that I believe he means we’re absolutely connected and things that happen in other countries they don’t take long to have an effect on us.
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Big Ben Patton (Check me out!)
// May 15, 2008 at 9:48 pm
An eye opening look at what even the most “international news savvy” folks are reallying being fed… Absolutely incredible.
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Father Peter (Check me out!)
// Jun 26, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for this Jason. I end up trawling the web for the detail on my blog and find that I seem to be one of the few who appears to have some grasp of what is going on in the world.
Than God for the WWW and bloggers! they can’t hide from us!
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