Chau: Dad, I`m doing an assignment.
Can you help me with the information?
Chau: It`s about the important dates of
the media. Where and when did the
first printed newspaper appear, Dad?
Chau`s father: What is the assignment about?
Chau`s father: Perhap it was in the late 19th century.
Do you know what two new forms of
media appeared in the early 20th century?
Chau: And when was the telegraph invented?
Chau`s father: It first appear in the 7th or 8th
century AD, in China.
Chau: Radio and newscreels?
Chau: When did the internet become a major force in journalism?
Chau`s father: Excellent! And when did television become commercially viable, can you guess?
Chau: In the 1940s?
Chau`s father: No. It was in the 1950s.
Chau: Thank you, Dad. Now I can answer all the questions for my assignment.
Chau`s father: In the mid - and late 1990s
Fill in the blanks.
1. First printed newspaper was invented in . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . was invented in the late 19th century.
3. Early in 20th century, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . appeared.
4 . Television became popular in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 . . . . . . . .became a major force in journalism in mid and late 1990s.