Direction: Match each topic sentence with a supporting detail.
Global media is in increasingly in the hands of a few, large, powerful organizations, as is the production of music and film. A.
Local culture’s role as spontaneous and integral part of people’s life is eroded and it ceases to serve as the means of constructing societal values, reproducing group identity and building social cohesion.
B.
For example, by 1997, the MTV television station was available to 280 million households in over 70 countries.
C.
Production and consumption of cultural goods and services have become commodities, along with the essentials of social life (marriage, and family life, religion work and leisure), that are the crucibles of cultural creation. D.
What once was an element of their way of life becomes a product, rather than something unique they had made to suit their own specific needs and circumstances.