Monday, 13 June 2011

What is News?

Here are a selection of definitions of news.
1. News is people - The News revolves around the people that the general public want to know about or will want to know about like celebrities and politicians etc depending on what audience it is aimed at.
2. Dog bites man - no interest.
    Man bites dog - news 
    Anything unusual or out of the ordinary is news, ordinary is boring.
3. News is what someone somewhere wants to suppress, all the rest is advertising. 
If someone doesnt want someone else to know about it, there has to be something wrong, which is why curious and nosy members of the public need to know about it, super injunctions are a prime example of someone hiding something and it going from what would be a small magazine scandal to a huge news story.
4. Fresh events reported, anything new or unheard is reported until it becomes old and heard by all.

Definitions
News must be new or fresh or at least have a fresh angle.
News must be presented as something that us not mundane; it must be an event.
The fresh event must be reported to become news.

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