The media has a great importance in our daily lives. Whether you are reading a newspaper, surfing the internet, or watching television - the media is impacting you in a way that no other medium can. The media is our link to the outside world. Sometimes we are consumed by the media - in times of sorrow and tragedy, and in times of joyous celebration. But it is in these times that the media means the most to us. It allows us to share in these times and helps us to understand the situations surrounding them better. We would certainly be lost without any source of media in our lives. We depend on the media like the air we breathe. It has been around for quite a while, and it now seems that today's society has taken it for granted. It will always be there. The early media started with the invention of the printing press, which printed the news on high-quality, almost silk-like sheets. The media continued with the radio, transmitting sound waves from around the world and compressing!
             them into a little box that a typical family would gather around every night. Then along came the television, which changed the face of the media. Families would gather around a bigger box every night to watch real people in action, and with sound too! Imagine that. If things couldn't get any crazier, along comes a little thing called the internet. The internet is the newest invention to join the media group. It took the world by storm in the last ten years of the twentieth century and held it's hand going into the twenty- first century. I would like to think of these four inventions as the Innovators of the Media. Offsprings of the Innovators were magazines, books, and to a lesser degree, music. But over the years music has found its way into the media - sometimes good, sometimes bad. I do believe that there is bias in the media. We see this bias every day in news broadcasts, talk shows, entertainment shows and commercials that attempt t
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