Foreign media exposes us to different perspectives of the world. Different news channels are offered to us on a variety of platforms, such as through e-newspapers and cable tv. This would ensure a global perspective on certain issues that plague our world today, hence allowing youths to be a lot more aware of the world around them, as well as being able to form their own opinions of these issue due to the multiple perspectives that we are exposed to. For example, CNN and Fox News, two newschannels from the United States with a Democratic and Republican slant, respectively, allows our youths to understand issues in America from different viewpoints. News channels like Al-Jazeera and KBS News also allows youth to develop a more regional viewpoint on global issues. The internet also allows us to scour for newspapers from other countries, such as the Herald Tribune and the Daily Mail in order to increase our awareness and general knowledge of the world. Foreign media hence allows us opportunities to break out of a narrow mindset by presenting other forms of perspectives for our youths stop being ignorant about the world around them and form their own opinions on global issues without biasedness or narrow-mindedness.

Nowadays, if one was to declare themselves a fan of Chelsea football club, the reply you would get would most probably "Before or After Roman Abramovich?" Chelsea Football Club was bought over by a rich oil merchant in 2003, and this led to an interesting disadvantage of commercialisation in sport. Because of the large amount of capital that is provided to these clubs who are bought over by rich businessmen, they are able to buy their way to success. This effectively destroys sportsmanship in the spirit of competition and causes unfair advantages to smaller teams that do not have that large an amount of capital at their disposal and thus are unable to spend as freely. This is not just limited to football. Sport that are taken over by sponsorship or under ownership will all suffer from this disadvantage. In F1, Ferrari and MacLaren are always the teams that occupy the pole position whereas teams with less renowned cars like Toyota rarely become champions. Hence, commercialization has been proven to disrupt and distort the playing field, providing unfair economical and thus other advantages to certain teams.

Sarah 09A02!

(BTW, Mr P. Trying the "New Style" that you told us to so if it seems less.. structured, don't deduct points, thank you! (: )