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"Regardless of which medium is chosen, primary orality, literacy, and secondary orality will exist in each one; they will inform one another, infuse one another, and create one another". Let's briefly talk about the three eras of communication, focus on the “literate era” and the “post-literate era” as they both relate to a particular issue covered by the media, and explain which coverage was the most comprehensive, objective, and partisan. Eras of Communication According to Walter J. Ong, there are three eras of communication. First, there was the era of “primary orality”, which was before people had writing and had to rely on receiving their information by word-of-mouth. Since they did not have anyway to transcribe information that they heard, they had to rely heavily upon their memory in order to process and retain the information they received. Second, there was the “literate era”, when first writing and then print revolutionized human thought and life processes. When a new symbol system called the “alphabet” was developed in Semitic tribes in the area near Greece around 1500 B.C., accompanied with the vowels that were added in 700 B.C. by the Greeks, the modern alphabet was born and allowed langua