Which metaphor for the media's reach does sociologist todd gitlin consider more apt than "global village? "?

The answer is "global torrent".

Sociologist Todd Alan Gitlin is an American, also a political essayist, writer, and social observer. He is printed on the broad communications, governmental issues, scholarly life and expressions of the human experience, for both popular and scholarly publications. Gitlin turned into a political activist in 1960, when he joined a Harvard group called Tocsin, against atomic weapons.