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Media and Current Events Electronic media are having a greater impact on the peoples lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your conscious-ness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on live action such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities. 36 The best title for the passage is ____________. B The Impact of Media on Current Events D How Media Cover Events ____________. A electronic media can extend ones contact with the world C all the events occurring on the university campus at Berkeley were given national media coverage 38 The term electronic city in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________. B San Francisco | 
