“a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels”…

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy in The Guardian: Fast Forward Into Trouble: “Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan’s first crime wave – murder, fraud, drug offences.”