Briefly describe the characteristics of ancient news communication activities.

A: The ancient society here mainly refers to the primitive society, slave society and feudal society before the birth of the modern news communication industry represented by newspapers. Compared with the news activities of modern society, the news activities of the whole ancient society have * * * similarities:

(1) ancient society never stopped news activities, but no organization's occupation was to collect news and release it to the public. In other words, there were only news activities in ancient society, but no news career.

(2) Compared with modern society, news activities in ancient society were small in scale, news was basically directional, and there was no non-directional mass communication, so it was difficult to distinguish news activities from intelligence activities.

(3) The news activities within the ruling class greatly exceed those of the ruled class in scale. It can be said that the news activities in ancient society were basically monopolized by the ruling class.

The above situation shows that in the soil of ancient society, although the material means and delivery conditions (movable type printing, paper and post station) for printing newspapers have long been available, it is impossible to produce newspapers for the masses.