Electronic media made the Orient more accessible while intensifying Western economic control

Evidence

If the world has become immediately accessible to a Western citizen living in the electronic age, the Orient too has drawn nearer to him, and is now less a myth perhaps than a place crisscrossed by Western, especially American, interests. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 98

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later Islamophobia readings on media representation and the construction of the ‘Other’ — the media-era continuation of Orientalist representation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 98