Hunger Banquet

So while studying for the test I read something I didn't remember. I think it was in the book but I'm not sure, anyway whatever it was said that Media was the plural of medium and a medium is a means of doing something...Wow, that's really broad but thinking about this made me expand my view of media quite a bit. So I thought about this tonight at the hunger banquet, if you've never been before they divide everyone up into three classes: really rich, rich and poor. My wife, son and I were poor and ate beans and rice and drank water out of plastic sacks. Meanwhile they have people walking around acting as tourists and then a couple others who are personifying greed and corruption. These people will sell you things, for example one couple near us bought two seats next to the keynote speaker at the "really rich" table for twenty bucks. Later they came around selling, hot dogs and chips, which was the food for the rich people, the really rich people were served food from Tucanos on big platters and were waited on. The whole point is to use this experience as a medium through which they can teach more about hunger/development in low SES nations. Plus the extra money people pay is donated to help people in parts of the world where it is needed. It was a really cool experience. Not only did I learn a lot about international development but it expanded my view of media. We really do live in a media saturated world.