Most news is old, dated. What is the One monk Expensive. Messengers need to be maintained. What is the Can not get By the time it reaches the common person, news is third access to K. books from hand, distorted, garbled, unusable. There is only a small body of total knowledge.
Expertise is therefore undeveloped.
One mind can hold all existing knowledge. Role of Merchants are small in number, and make little demand for education. The merchants have little power and keep a low profile. The number and power of the merchants grows, as does their demand for education. Role of At the end of the Dark Ages, government begins to wrestle power from Government the Church.