Emerging
global
elite
to
use
new
global
media
to
educate
'global
citizens'
February
15th, 2009.
Elite members of the World
Economic Forum (WEF) meeting
in Davos, Switzerland,
recently considered a
proposal for a new global
television network to usher
in a state of “global
governance.” The concept
strikes some as
authoritarian, even
totalitarian. But the parent
company of Fox News was one
of the sponsors of this
year's gathering.
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On
Tuesday
January
20th, 2009
controversial
Canadian
broadcaster
Richard
Syrett was
terminated
from his
post at
juggernaut
radio
station
NewsTalk
1010 without
warning.
Despite
rising
profits
(Astral
Media
recently
announced
first
quarter
profits rose
to $42.4 M,
from a year
ago -
$37.5M)
Canada’s
largest
radio and
pay-TV
operator
chose to
fire this
courageous
man. All the
more
puzzling is
the fact
that his
show
remained one
of the top
rated
evening
programs in
the market.
And,
recently the
station
expanded his
format from
two hours to
three and
then from
four nights
a week to
five. more
In
the last 15 years or so, as a
society we have had access to more
information than ever before in
modern history because of the
Internet. There are approximately 1
billion Internet users in the world
B and any one of these users can
theoretically communicate in real
time with any other on the planet.
The Internet has been the greatest
technological achievement of the
20th century by far, and has been
recognized as such by the global
community.
In
the old days, when a journalist met
his final deadline, friends would
gather round the grave, toss in a
few memories, then make off to the
bar for liquid comfort and
disrespectful stories about the dear
departed. Contrast this with the
send-off for Tim Russert,
NBC’s Washington Bureau Chief and
17-year maestro of “Meet the
Press”, who dropped dead of a
heart attack last week.
He
got funeral ceremonies a pope and
most U.S. presidents would envy: a
private funeral with this year’s
two presidential nominees sitting
side by side on Russert family
orders, with the Congressional
leadership in the neighboring pews;
George and Laura Bush at the public
wake; thousands at the memorial in
the Kennedy Center, with Washington
and New York’s media and political
elites massed in respectful homage.
