Transmitted Technology in Low Tech - Low Skill. Motor skills and short term memory Production skills for monks. Who controls The wealthy, the powerful, and the Church. The Church is NOT Transmission centralized. Censorship is sporadic.
Much knowledge seems 'foreign', and is therefore suspect.
What is the Glacial Slow, months. 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.