Mass Media
The 20th century has seen an explosion of mass communications, using the old medium of the printed word as well as never ones such as radio, moving pictures, television and, most recently, computers and the internet.
Newspapers
The earliest of the „mass media“ was the newspaper, which brought information and opinion to its readers, but the earliest newspapers were not intended for the „masses“. Copies of these weekly papers were purchased by the small number of literate people among the relatively affluent classes. Late in the 19th century, the invention of a technology for making paper from wood fibres, rather than rags, made paper less expensive to produce.
Telegraph
The first electronic means of communication to be invented was the telegraph. It was a point-to point system of communication, from a sender to a specific receiver, but later it was compiled daily news summaries from newspaper reports and transmitted these by Morse Code to all of the telegraph offices on the island.