Saturday, June 29, 2019

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.

Conveying events to people by way of mouth can often be catastrophic especially in times of war. In the day of yore transfer of knowledge on events that happen on other lands was sloppy and slow. It was the job of a runner to go to other communities to extract significant episodes and relay it back to where the rider came from. This makes it more time consuming for the knowledge to be imparted.

The domestication of the horse gave impetus the way of knowing what took place in other localities. The horse speed multiplied that of a man. It could cover huge distances in a shorter time. This made it possible for people to send it together the rider to several places in a given span of time. Even though the use of horse made travel shorter, information was still given through mouth.

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.

The pieta, the great statue of David, the last supper, the Sistine cathedral, all marvels of art and engineering were done at the time of the renaissance. This was a period of scientific and technological advances that debunked many beliefs espoused by religion. The printing press was a product from this period and it is still in use today in some form or another. It made mass production of written texts possible. A single sheet of article written on paper could be now reproduced a thousand times over.

Today news can be gathered or heard in a variety of ways as technology advanced through the years. Telegraphy and telephony were once used during the early nineteen hundreds but today modern man has many means available. Radio broadcasts are heard daily. Network television provides news daily and the latest technology using computers and the internet has made the world a very small place indeed.




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