How the Media Would Have Covered the Birth of Jesus

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Dan Amira:

The arrival of the messiah would have been a huge media event at the time had there actually been any media aside from the guy who announced the king’s royal proclamations from a balcony. Consequently, we are forced to make educated guesses about how today’s media would have covered the story, if it were around back then.

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