Olympic Divide

As I was watching the U.S. ski team compete in the olympics, they interrupted the race to go into a prerecorded story about one of the ski team members. During the 3 minute segment which included pictures and videos of the skier's life, I began wondering if other countries did the same thing with their own sports team members as much as America did. Thinking about our discussion about the digital divide in class, and what has been said in another media class about America's "turn with-in" when it comes to movies and television, I realized that it is very possible that our country has managed to focus on the individual in one of the most united world events. In other countries I'm sure that they show more footage of competitors from different countries, instead of coating it over with dramatic profiles of their own team members. Although we may be a very technologically advanced country, I feel we have not used many parts of it to our intellectual advantage. In a way it is like we are creating our own digital divide between us and cultures around the world.