СМИ

All the news, educational and informational resources are part of

Mass media.
For better understanding all sources of media can be divided into three groups:
auditory, which is presented mainly by radio,
visual, which is presented mainly by newspapers and magazines,
audiovisual, which is presented mainly by television.

is the Internet. In its turn, it can replace all the

above mentioned sources and all the existing ways of broadcasting.

have been largely modified over the last centuries. The main

idea of media development was, of course, to satisfy human need for inquisitiveness. People have always wanted to know the socially significant news ahead.

spread in Ancient Rome as early as the 5th century

B.C. The most widespread paper resembled a daily bulletin about events of the day.
In some Asian countries there were also distributed prehistoric papers. In the Middle Ages there was a wide circulation of the so-called “flying leaflets”.
Thanks to J. Guttenberg’s invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century, mass journalism received speedy development. Thus, Western Europe can be considered as the place of origin of the printed press.

journalistic genres began to develop. Among them informational chronicles, pamphlets,

reportages, etc. Then there were different type of newspapers and magazines launched.
The first printed papers were mostly of religious and clerical orientation. In the 16th century there were feudal-monarchist newspapers. The bourgeois reports appeared in the 19th century.
The orientation of the 20th century press was socialistic and the newest and most common idea noticed in media can be characterized as common humanistic.

radio. It is the wireless transmission of signals or sounds

through free space.
The first radio receiver was introduced by Russian physicist Alexander Popov in 1895.
Today, we use radio mainly for listening to music and the daily news.
Radio is also one of the most powerful means of media. That’s why many large and small businesses advertise on radio nowadays.

media sources.
The first TVs were white and black, and only

in 1967 the citizens of our country saw color television.
Contemporary TV sets offer digital television (DTV), high-definition television (HDTV) and other new technologies.
Television has lots of advantages, for example, keeps us informed, entertained and in some cases even educated. It can also get the family together in the evenings. 
Television has obviously changed the society, and it’s probably used more than any other type of mass media.

out.
First of all, it’s information about the current events, facts and

situation.
Secondly, it’s evaluation. Most of the facts that we receive today are being commented, analyzed and evaluated. So, we get the overall impression about them through certain evaluation.
And, thirdly, media is a powerful tool for education. All the necessary books, historical reviews, geographical facts along with information about any other sphere can be found in periodicals, TV programs and Internet resources.