What is news? What functions does it fulfill?
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News fulfils all the area in a nice manner such as\n\nN stands for North\nE stands for East\nW stands for West\nS stands for South\n\nSo this means it covers all the area and provides you information
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Regardless of your politics people, the answer is YES.  The media needs stories to fill 24 hours worth of 'news.' The media frequently "reports" what the governments reports, says, and spins.  People at all levels of government (federal, state, local, school) spend time every day trying to spin a media message in a particular way, in the same way that PR companies and corporate companies cast their messages.  How, when, what, and why a story is reported is generally structured by others in government (and business) with the public blissfully unaware.  Fox simply characterizes with a conservative bent.
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RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are top picks for reading news on Windows.\n\nA Web site that wants to "publish" some of its content, such as news headlines or stories, creates a description of the content and specifically where the content is on its site in the form of an RSS document. The publishing site then registers its RSS document with one of several existing directories of RSS publishers. A user with a Web browser or a special program that can read RSS-distributed content can read periodically-provided distributions.
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http://news.yahoo.com/\n\nscroll to the bottom of the page...they have several stories on every category you listed. From all different news sources.
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its not news.\nit is entertainment.\nit is easier to convince people of your side when you limit debate, information and interpret the world to fit a particular world view. \non the left but especially on the right are guilty.\n\nThats why you hear something and you check out the facts. in the end you are not a silent partner but should be a active member in debate and discourse. like yahoo answers...even.
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it means news that just happened and it came hot off a newspaper press. This came back in the day when there was no breaking news on TV
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None of the shows you listed are actual news sources. A real news source has objective reporting (which isn't all that easy to find, but it does exist.)
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To discover, explore, and inform others about newsworthy events, as ethically and honestly, and as free from bias, as possible.
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check out news.bbc.co.uk
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A blown up news story that will never be as big as people fear.\nIts news' new shark attack.
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Intersting project.\nAnyway, here's a Wikipedia article:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_World_News\nHere's the WWN webpage:\nhttp://www.weeklyworldnews.com/\nAn article on fact vs. fun tabloids:\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3651/is_199410/ai_n8715384\nA small bit of info:\nhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/definitions/wwn.html\n\nHope that helps to get you started!
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http://news.search.yahoo.com/\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/
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A Press Release means news about anything to be published in the newspapers or the TV news.
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RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.\n\nXML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.  Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.\n\nBizTalk Server 2004, a Windows Server System product, helps customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners faster than ever before.\n\nMSMQ, part of Windows NT® Server, is a message queuing communications technology that enables applications on different systems to communicate with each other, even if systems and networks occasionally fail. MSMQ does this by enabling applications to communicate with each other through messages. MSMQ guarantees delivery of messages even despite network and application failures.
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I'm guessing that you are referring to the "News" media. If so, it simply evolves with new things being added and old things dropping away.\n\nThere was a time when hot news stories were sent by telegraph wire message. During the last month Western Union has dropped wire message service.\n\nAt one time newspapers were the primary source of news, today they have lots of competition and now you can email your letter to the editor. \n\nWhat a great world!
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It sounds like your talking about RSS feeds. You first \nmust have an RSS News Reader which allows you to get whatever news you want by finding the most appropriate \nNews Feeds. The very best of the RSS News Readers can be found right here at MY Yahoo!
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Congratulations, Josette, that is the most intelligent question I've seen anyone ask via Yahoo's ASK website.  I was the Academic Excellence Award Winner from my college journalism cadre and feel emminently qualified to answer.\nOK, N E W S, is an acronym of north, east, west and south and supposedly indicates that news comes from all over.  It also fits in with the idea of something 'new' and unfortunately that's the aspect of things most emphasized.\n\n  News is, in many ways, a joke.  It's just entertainment content like fan magazines, porn websites, comic books, romance novels, comedy movies, etc.\n\n  On the other hand, news sometimes has the power to ennoble us, inform us and inspire us.  It depends upon the news and it depends upon the recipient of the news -- see below Apollo 13.\n\n  Unfortunately, the easiest news to gather is usually the least ennobling and the most negative.  If you were to explore the nature of the simple glass of water that you drink and the story behind it, you would find one of the most incredible and most positive stories imaginable.  For an example of a similar nature:  I refer you to the awesome essay:  "I, Pencil" referenced below.   Unfortunately, in our democracy, we often degenerate to the level of the mass media which aims all entertainment at the level of a retarded 14 year old as witness our sitcoms and all the other trivial entertainment that passes for broadcast television.  Why?  Because, advertisers usually don't want to risk missing anyone, any potential or eventually potential consumer out there.  Because of that, higher class programming and higher class news are viewed as an exceptional risk.  How many people watch the PBS MacNeil Leher Hour where serious news is explored in serious depth every night, perhaps 2%?\n\n  Easy news to a reporter in the field (almost always BAD news, rather than feature stories which are much more difficult to research and write and feature stories are almost always positive and ennobling) is always welcome and immediately channelled upward to the editors and proofreaders.  They make decisions on what gets printed or aired by looking at A.  Impact locally?   B. Persons of Prominence involved?  C.  Sensational nature of the item?  D. Is it NEW?  E. Interesting?  F.  Exciting?  G.  Unusual?  and only then is H.  Is it of over-riding human interest? considered and since this is where the large majority of the complex and important and positive human news lies, this is the last and least important part of the so-called news.  It all comes down ultimately to some editor's choice of what will get him the most viewers.  An incredible amount of murders, rapes, strikes, wars, hate crimes and other negative news is needed every day to sell soap, automobiles, perfume, lingerie, and houses.\n\n  One other aspect too serious and too deep to consider in this brief answer is that 95% of all journalism students consider themselves when asked either Democrats or liberals.  So when you see people like Peter Jennings smirking or Mike Wallace ignoring tough questions he might ask Ted Kennedy or Lou Dobbs totally slanting every piece of news he touches, there is a valid reason in their minds for approaching news coverage that way; and a valid reason for you to doubt the overall truth of what you're getting.\n\nThe movie Apollo 13 highlighted the attitude of journalists \ntoward real news and sensational news.  Surely there are five million stories that could come out of the world of space exploration but in the movie they cancelled an educational broadcast from the pilot of Apollo 13 saying, "You've made space as exciting as a car wash" or something like that.  What they were really saying is they were too lazy to get in there and do the hard work to make teaching people about the wonders of space exploration and instead expected it to come to them pre-packaged like some public relations release or infomercial