A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed! The concept of mass media is a simple one. ‘It’s purpose is to circulate information and news throughout the general populace’(Strate 1). In the previous years of human communication this proved to be a wearing and difficult task. The means for transporting news was undeveloped and extremely tedious. However things changed with a series of inventions. ‘The first of these inventions was the steamed power printing press. It emerged in 1830 and marked the beginning of the era of the mass media’(Bergreen 2). ‘The second series of inventions was the telegraph, invented in 1844, it enabled news to travel