From the mankind's earliest days, humans have tried to transmit ideas to one another in a clear and easy way. First such an exchange took place in the form of inter-personal communication. One person told another person something. While this was good for small groups such as families and small villages or tribes, the growth of human population made it necessary to change the structure. The difference that the mankind chooses was the mass communication. The transfer of one idea to many people, started way before 3500BC, however the beginning of mass communication and journalism is with the Sumerians.

In the first 5000 years of journalistic history, innovation came slowly. However, the discovery of paper by the Chinese and the improvements in literature by the Greeks allowed for better innovations later. "A printing press can not exist without something to be printed, and without something to be printed upon".

In the 250 years after the innovation of the printing press, western printers began to grow and expend their influence. Gutenberg with

By the early 1960s, 541 of 600 television stations were commercial and on air, broadcasting daily to about 90 percent of the houses in the United States. By the early 1990s, those numbers had increased 1062 commercial and 338 public stations, and broadcasts were reaching 98 percent of houses in the United States.

According to the estimates by the National Association of Broadcasters, in1922 there were 60000 households in the United States with radios, by 1929 the number had reached 10million. This was the "Golden Age" of radio. However, the sales could not further increase without advertisement. The sale of advertising time begun with the growth of American Broadcasting. By 1934 almost 600 radio stations were broadcasting to more than 20million homes in the United States. American commercial radio broadcasting had grown to$100million industry by the middle of that decade.

Scientists worked to develop a device that could overcome these limitations of telegraph. "In 1895 Italian inventor Guglielma Marconi transmitted a message in Morse Code that was picked about 3km away by a receiving that had no wired connection to Marconi's transmitting device. The invention was cold radiotelegraph (later shortened to radio)". The age of broadcasting had begun.

Until the 19th century mass communication heavily depended on transportation. A message could only be sent by a ship or train, on horse back or even in the memory of human courier, until the invention of the "telegraph, the first instantaneous system of information movement, in 1837 in the United States by inventor, Samuel F.B. Morse."

In the first half of the 18th century, newspapers began spreading all over the colonies. They began by reporting, but later became a source of information and critique. This critique helped notions of freedom and independence to spread among colonies. American Revolution, which took place in the final quarter of the 18th century, is evidence to this fact.

Despite its achievements, telegraphic communication was limited. It too much depended on the building and maintenance of a complex system of receiving stations wired to each other along a fixed route. The telephone, patented by American inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, required an even more complex system. The two great long distance communications were of no use to ships at sea and very little help to poor nations that could not afford the building of lines. The printed word remained the only medium by which large numbers of people could be addressed simultaneously.

As an example, one important benefit of Internet being used by the whole population in a society may be the return to direct democracy. Can people decide on the issues of national politics eve

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