Analyze how advances in technology have affected the quality and delivery of news in America.

Answer:

For two-hundred years, the newspaper (and other printed media) were the most reliable and up-to-date medium for reliable information. Although the radio became popular in the 1930s, it was not until the television became common in the 1950s and 1960s that the newspaper was dethroned as the king of media. Television changed the game. For the first time, people could see the news, and sometimes it was live. In 1991, CNN and other news outlets provided live coverage from a war zone for the first time in history. Soon, cable news channels began covering events around the world twenty-four hours a day. This increase in media coverage garnered faster public responses, and therefore required quicker government responses to the news. Then, in the late 1990s, the Internet exploded in popularity and became an instantaneous source of many facts, views, and opinions; however, because many Internet sites are not verified for accuracy, much of the information that is found on the Internet cannot be trusted unless all sources and authors are thoroughly checked.