<story><title>ONO sells for $9.5 billion and nobody cares</title><url>http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/ono-sells-for-9-5-billion-and-nobody-cares.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>If you primarily rely on sources of information in English (of which I&amp;#x27;m guilty, too) then obviously you will be mostly getting information from the Anglosphere dominated by the US because it&amp;#x27;s, oh you know, richest and most powerful country in the history of the world.&lt;p&gt;This is not some &amp;quot;Americans cover their successes&amp;quot; thing. It&amp;#x27;s that they matter more. There is an underlying economic reality in which we are lagging far behind them. Not Africa-far but still far.&lt;p&gt;In a picture &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20120728_FBC674.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.static-economist.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;imagecac...&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/node/21559618&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;21559618&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>This effect even gets reinforced by the European journalists: a German speaking journalist will read German and English sources. A Spanish journalist will read Spanish and English sources, etc. Having the &amp;quot;lingua franca&amp;quot; is a huge asset for the Anglosphere. It not only affects the flow of news, it also leads to cultural dominance (everyone watches Hollywood movies, but European movies are primarily shown in their home countries, same goes for music). I would say that average Jean in many European countries knows more about the Anglosaxon legal system than their own one - just because they get exposed to TV shows about US lawyers all the time. The French try to fight that influence - but I think resistance is futile. Instead, the Europeans should try to find angles to inject their own views into the English news &amp;amp; culture stream. This leads to one large globalized, multi-cultural soup of values - but that&amp;#x27;s better than an Anglosaxon dominated soup of values. The times where each country could have their own soup are over.</text></comment>
<story><title>ONO sells for $9.5 billion and nobody cares</title><url>http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/ono-sells-for-9-5-billion-and-nobody-cares.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>If you primarily rely on sources of information in English (of which I&amp;#x27;m guilty, too) then obviously you will be mostly getting information from the Anglosphere dominated by the US because it&amp;#x27;s, oh you know, richest and most powerful country in the history of the world.&lt;p&gt;This is not some &amp;quot;Americans cover their successes&amp;quot; thing. It&amp;#x27;s that they matter more. There is an underlying economic reality in which we are lagging far behind them. Not Africa-far but still far.&lt;p&gt;In a picture &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20120728_FBC674.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.static-economist.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;imagecac...&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/node/21559618&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;21559618&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genofon</author><text>&amp;quot; richest and most powerful country in the history of the world...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;not even close&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-modern_great_powers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_pre-modern_great_powers&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>