the pursuit of Jouralism is a precursor to writing history , often associated with the pursuit of knowlegde and of truth .. first for something to be recorded as historical fact it needs to be documented , previous to modern day reporting and documentation of events , eye witness accounts and retellings even as far back as in the ancient past , became a source of reference for future generations to access and through doing so gain understanding of the times The history of journalism spans the growth of both technology and trade, the progressive installments are marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis, that caused, the steady increase of "the scope of news available to populations , and the speed with which it could be transmitted. Before the printing press was invented, word of mouth was the primary source of news. Returning merchants, sailors , messengers and travelers brought news back to many different lands, and this was then picked up by peddlers and spread from town to town and place to place . Ancient scribes often wrote this information down. This transmission of news today is regarded as highly unreliable and died out being replaced with the invention of the printing press. Newspapers (and to a lesser extent, magazines) have always been the primary medium of journalists since the 18th century, radio and television in the 20th century, and the Internet in the 21st centuryin the modern age as the theme of dissemination of information prevailed with mediums such as the and newsapapergoing forwards television ,, the advet of visual media , reduced the ambiguity of facts in representation ,mostly because seeing is believing and considered as proof of reality , that is of course until we fast forward to present day where the antidote to that problem is transformed by deep fake fabrications been made possible by further advancements like photoshop and , right at the forefront of in our present day , sophisticated A1 tools that challenge the very nature of truth itself if we take a perhaps abstract example into consideration Moses was like a modern day journalist of sorts /. And so similarly , if you aloow for a moment , any of the many other prophetic figureheads throughout history that have been the harbringers of new sources of information for our contemplation
all have in common that what they sought to achieve was the Communication of a story that lead the recipients to ponder moral ethical and spiritual circumstances..
because if we think out it , Isn’t that what you the news papers of the recent past and even the accelerated mediums of today - evokes in viewers, a previously unknown awareness of some revelation
today - we See that a crime has been committed/we are versed on the apparent facts around the matter /. And then proceed to - . If only even privately , to make determinations . and these determinations often result in judgements. - And then in turn , society as a whole forms a consensus, around what3ver prevails out of the multitude of attitudes that emerge around any specific narrative..