200 years question

"The last 20 years have been more significant in terms of media and its role in society than the whole of the previous 200 years" 
I do agree with this statement. One of the reasons being that you can now access the news at any time and a wider range of media. In a way that if a news story breaks out you can go on Twitter at that time and read up on the story and also it is fast due to fast internet access. 200 years ago you had to first of all buy the newspaper (now going on the internet is free) also the news may have been old so it may not have been relevant. Now there is wide range of media in which we have different sources.