What Is News?

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One of main Ideas in this essay is "What is News" it is by what method people analyze, describe what news means for them. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's expressed a similar description of law for news, he said news is whatever the news directors and journalist say it is, but what exactly does this mean? Meaning that, whenever we turn on to see a network or local news channel whatever they show it is what's news mean to them. Plus what about what prominent American poet Ezra Pound added, he described literature as news that stays news, among other things. While for most of the people, news means "important and interesting things that happened during the day", without a doubt not every one of them carry the identical view as different people think, for some news it is a process to take their thoughts off their own trouble. Although the journalist of the indicated book believes that news is history in its first and best form, the expressions of the passions of the public, or the prejudices of journalist, meaning the reflection of the reporter who tells the story. There are many different definitions to answer this simple question, But for me, News it is a way of understanding what is going on in the world, nearly all of the time, something I am interested in it is not something everybody view an important event to make the news. In my opinion, news should be a way relaxing but learning new stuff every day.

Some Other idea in this heading that postman maid was "Who had decided that they are important and why" which means how important writers are how prominent their way of thinking and prejudice can alter the story, or the way we see it and get it. Being a viewer, In my opinion people should not put their point of view on t...

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... can confirm a few of the events recorded in the news are not of my concern, but surely there might be a few other persons that this article can improve their lives. Of course, the show would probably lose viewers if every time people switch on the TV they saw enthusiastic, reliable, optimistic news every time that is one of the causes Journalist post shocking news as they hold more data to explain the event than the good news. Each viewer is in the position of judging for what reason those stories are as the need to get to the news. People should know something about political, religion, financial conditions to possess some experience to examine this. To conclude, something viewers need to get it is that we're required to see often is not what we expect to see and that whatever we see during every news is what reporter want us to see, that is what we're judging.

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