Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Oil spill ‘will shape how US thinks about environment’

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Barack Obama:

In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come

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What we can predict is that the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover; that there are going to be environmental costs that our children… our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren are going to have to bear.

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Obama bemoans ‘diversions’ of iPod, Xbox era – AFP

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    Barack Obama speaking at Hampton University, Virginia:

    "You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter"

    "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation"

    He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.

    "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

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    "We can't stop these changes… but we can adapt to them," […]

    "Education… can fortify you, as it did earlier generations, to meet the tests of your own time"

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