News agencies' goal is to bring information to the medias. They hire journalists who collect information in different ways, and distribute it to medias.
The oldest News Agency is the Agence France-Presse (AFP), founded in 1835 by the French Charles Luis Havas. Two of this employees, Julius Reuters and Benhard Wolff would later create their own agencies respectively in London in 1851 and Berlin in 1849 and become rivals with the AFP.
During the World War I, the radio became the tool used in order to monopolize the people. In fact, the radio was used for proppaganda especially that radio was cheap and could be sold to mass scale.
In 1938, the BBC has been created in order to fight against the nazi Germans, and used as a platform to mobilise people against Germany.
mardi 18 novembre 2008
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