Wikipedia: History of Mass media

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Mass Media is the term used to describe the large mob of journalists and reporters that work for the various television news programs, newspapers and radio stations. Like any mob, the intelligence of the group can be found by either averaging each members intelligence or just taking the intelligence levels that is lowest. Whilst each individual may be highly intelligent, they possess an overall stupidity which means that when they start reporting on something en masse, they almost always get it completely wrong.

Those Media? reaching large numbers of the public, viz, Radio, Television, Magazines?, Newspapers? and the World Wide Web . Term coined in the 1920's with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines.

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See code red virus as a typical example.

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