Somebody should do a study: how did the rise of global satellite stations in the 1990s affect the integration of immigrants in European countries and US? To what extent, for example, does the availability, nay the popularity, of Arab channels in the US affect the integration of Arab immigrants? Do those channels not strengthen their bonds with the countries of origin at the expense of the new adopted countries? Take it at the political level: Lebanese in the US are so intimately involved with Lebanese politics on daily bases (sometimes watching two different news broadcasts from Lebanon) while disregarding American politics? I wonder.