My Way News reports: "Communications technology - including live video from within the mine - turned the entire world into a global village hoping for the safe release of men they did not know and would probably never meet [...] It's a feature of the TV age that intimacy can be transmitted live to hundreds of millions of people simultaneously, creating a shared memory of great moments."
Comment: What an extraordinary example of the rise of the interactive global community. We can all witness an event, watch it happen in real time on TV and on the internet, and then we can react to the event in a personal way, sharing the news with others by e-mail, text message, instant message and cell phone. The global scope of this news story is illustrated by this MSNBC video:
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