Question

''The last 20 years have been more significant in terms of media & its role in society, than the whole previous 200 years. '' 

I agree to this statement, to some extent - because although the past 20 years have been very significant in terms of media, as there has been a massive revolution of being able to listen, read, and print  - i.e. use all three media platforms to access news and media, however in the whole previous 200 years there was not. 

In the previous 200 years there was either radio, which not everyone was able to use, TV News, which only came in the 1930's and again, not everyone had access to this - word of mouth was the only main way. 

On the other hand, now that news is available on all three platforms, and media is available more - users are likely to not make use of the development, such as making use of all three radio, TV, and social media for example. Maybe one or two of these means are used, whereas in the previous 200 years - any opportunity to get media coverage, such as word of mouth, tv ect was seen as more of a privilege thus it's arguable that the previous 200 years in terms of media had a larger impact on society.