02/14/2008 "What is NEWS?"

News is a piece of information about either a person, thing, or event that has happened recently, but for a news station, this definition changes slightly. To a news station, news is a report of information about a person, thing, or event that has happened recently and is of interest to report, or newsworthy. Newsworthy material changes from station to station as some report celebrity gossip, sporting events, politics, and local, nation, or international events.

Many of these news stations are competiting against one another for viewers and ratings. They try to accomplish this by trying to report news as soon as it happens, or even before it happens by making predictions, as in political elections or in sporting events. But by doing so, they can mislead their viewers by making wrong predictions, and reporting the wrong news by trying to be the first to report it can also be dangerous.

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