In the world we live in today, it's hard to imagine life without the presence of the mass media. The mass media in the past fifty years has gone from a national scale, to a global machine, echoing news from around the world at all times. No sooner than you hear about a hostage situation in Russia do you learn of a mushroom cloud being sited in North Korea. Yet while one hundred years ago all this may not bear any significance to the average American, in today's world of global markets and global media, it bears much more weight.
<Tab/>The media has gone through three stages…
