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LOCAL MAN RESISTS PRESSURE TO BECOME GLOCAL |
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by Bobby Daniels
Email: bobbyd (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
14 Nov 2004
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Glocal news apparently is not for everyone. |
A local Urbana man, 65, who wished to remain anonymous, is taking a stance against glocalization.
"I'm just a small-town guy," he said at his bus stop Thursday morning. "Sure, the events of the world might affect me in some small way, but it's my God-given right to be sheltered from any knowledge of those events."
He later launched into a lengthy metaphor/simile about how town and country borders are like newspaper pages, and how it is "morally ignorant and shameful" for global and local news to mix on the same page.
The Urbana resident has vowed to get his news only from his neighbors, Reader's Digest, and his barber, Harold Brohman. The man was unaware that Brohman passed away two months ago in a house fire, reportedly set by either Guatemalans or Ashley Judd.
"No more Glocal newspapers for me!" he said, and he is backing up that claim with a sign in his lawn warning: "Glocal Paperboys Beware - Any printed matter containing inappropriate geographical news miscegenation left on my lawn will be properly separated and returned to you tenfold."
As for television, he only watches game shows and fishing shows. And of the internet, the local man had no knowledge but said it sounded "dangerous and more than a little queer." |
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