![]() The newspaper became the ubiquitous representation of the media. They had appeared at previous times, but the appearance of the newspaper as we know it in terms of fairly inexpensive paper, folded, available, often on the streets, available on newsstands, available just about anywhere people were, especially trafficking in train stations, later in airports. Now, newspapers or gazettes, similar forms of news fora. You're talking about massive numbers of people who could print on a 24-hour cycle, newspapers. And mass publishing pretty quickly became mass publishing. The next big jump in the media came with urbanization and the industrial revolution, and that meant mass publishing. By the time you get to the middle of the modern age, the average person can at least afford something in print. Still, it was less than when pages had to be produced by monks in a monastery with a pen and on skin, but still the price had to fall, but that's an historical fact. Time and use on the printing presses were precious, and thus every printed page was a very expensive page. In that first phase of early print media, the other big change in the game was the fall in the price, because at least in the beginning, paper was so incredibly expensive. By the time you get to the end of the 16th century, most people in Europe have at least seen a printed page, but the printed page was not just an innovation, it was an enormous game changer. And so you're basically looking at a development in the early modern age. Number one, the rise of print media itself. Just keep these in mind in historical sequence. You're looking at basically three huge developments here. ![]() It is only in fairly modern times that something like the modern media could have emerged. Now, for much of human history that was simply mouth-to-mouth or you might say stone tablet to stone tablet. We communicate and we are also social beings who want to know what's going on in the world around us. What we're talking about is the fact that human beings are communicating beings. What does all of this mean? Well, let's just step back for a moment and kind of remind ourselves of what we're talking about. Or regardless of the country you live in, the media has a similar influence just about everywhere.īut here in the United States, huge headlines of late, for instance, yesterday's edition of the New York Times included the headline, "Hundreds of Gannett Journalists Walk Out." The very same day, the Wall Street Journal, a front page business headline, "CNN's CEO Apologizes to Staff in Wake of Article." Everywhere you look, there are huge stories about media, the future of media. And how issues are framed in the media, and that means also in news reports, it has a great deal to do with how these issues are understood by Americans. Huge story here, and Christians need to watch huge changes on the media landscape because this has a great deal to do with the direction of our culture, how to understand the culture, how to know what people are talking about in this culture. ![]() Something big is happening in big media, and one of the big things happening in big media is that big media is not as big as it used to be.
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