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Daily Arab News Is Where You Get Unbiased Reporting

By Betty Graham


Man is a by nature is curious. Ever since this creature set foot on land it has always been inquisitive. Curiosity often times come in the form of questions and these questions need answers. This drives the creature to know what is happening in the surroundings including the creatures in it. Knowing the answers gave it a confidence of what future activities need to be done by whom, where and when. This thirst to know what is going on and where is known today as news. Most Arab nations tune in to the Daily Arab News.

In ancient times the flow was information was very slow and this was often done by mouth. Events in other places took a very long time before it reached other places. Runners were dispatched to other places to get stories of what was happening in other areas. Imagine the physical toll it took on the body of runners just to get it.

It was in Arabia that this animal was first domesticated. This phenomenal animal is a marvel of nature. This is the horse. With it distances were travelled in shorter time as the speed by which this animal move is exponentially higher than that of man. Riding on the animal made info gatherers and spreaders do more in less time. But still information was passed orally.

Spoken words can often be distorted depending on the person speaking it. Perception of events that happen also influences the person seeing it. This leads to opinionated version as it is shared with other people. Inaccuracies may or may not be sometime intentional. The modern game of message relay is a good example of this. A phrase is given to person and is relayed from one to another. The last person almost always will say a different phrase from original one.

The Nile River is the lifeblood of many nations in the African continent. Along its banks grew papyri. This was the first writing surface of the creature that inhabits the earth, man. As soon as the it became skilled in writing, it began to capture events in writing to be shared to others and for record keeping. Leather also came into use as this lasted longer.

With the use of paper, events from places could be written and distributed among the populace all at once by copying what was written over many pieces of paper. This paper combined with the use of the horse made information more readily available to the people who knew how to read. The circulation of events written on paper and the more speedy distribution by way of horse help spread the ongoing stories far and wide.

Writing by hand was the common practice in the olden days. Copying text from the original into copies was a tedious task and involved people who had to know how to read and write. Mass producing articles was a labor intensive enterprise. Nevertheless, this helped in the faster dissemination of events.

It was in the renaissance period that a man invented the printing press. This was a contraption that made use of wooden blocks carved with letters and arranged to form words. This was dipped or smeared with ink and brought into contact with paper. The transfer method made it possible to print group of words over and over again with less effort. This gave birth to newspapers.

The telegraph using Morse code greeted the industrial age. Next to come along was the telephone. Both helped in spreading information from one nation to another nation. New technology emerged by way of radio after the First World War. People ears were glued to radio set listening to broadcasts. After the Second World War television was invented. This time it was no longer the ear that was engage but also the eyes. Contemporary times now have information provided through various media.




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