Who on newsnetworks decides what is "newsworthy" to present to the public?  What is the definition of news?
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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
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No, it means freedom to tell the news.  Sometimes truth hurts.\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0297/ijde/goodale.htm
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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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Fair and Liberal news, 24/7
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The headline of a newspaper are the big title on the news papre witch give idea about the report that is undre the title.
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CNN because they actually report news. Fox news has a severe conservative bias and I'm not really interested in hearing their opinion.
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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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ournalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information regarding current events, trends, issues and people. Those who practice journalism are known as journalists.\n\nNews-oriented journalism is sometimes described as the "first rough draft of history" (attributed to Phil Graham), because journalists often record important events, producing news articles on short deadlines. While under pressure to be first with their stories, news media organizations usually edit and proofread their reports prior to publication, adhering to each organization's standards of accuracy, quality and style. Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics have raised questions about holding "the press" itself accountable.
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I won't tell you..but I will give you an example to help you draw your own conclusion!\n\nExample 1: Front page of Newspaper Laketime\n\nLead story is about Nor'Easter wollops East Coast\n\nWhat should the PHOTO be ? A Kid playing in a water sprinkler? or  A group of neighbors working together to shovel out an elderly persons walk? \n\nThat is a tame example...lets assume that a paper is liberal based....would they run a great story of a liberal politician with a bad picture of them looking angry? shoving a whole sub in their mouth? picking their nose?
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mike moore is a shill. he leaves out important info while using hotbutton keywords to play up emotions of those towing the party line. the lack of documenteries on politcal issues is fault of the main media entities. for instance, clear channel communications controls a huge percent of the means of broadcast while the fcc filters EVERYTHING we're alloud to be exposed to. i can film the most profound sht ever but if i have no way to show it, s.o.l.
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Because the media has an avowed liberal stance when it comes to such matters; that which they deem newsworthy- and an affront to anything they consider damaging to their agenda- will get front page news and major headlines. Anything they don't want to be noticed by the majority will be hidden in the back pages of the society section, thereby still 'reporting' the news, but not giving it the same prominence it should have had because it didn't push their agenda forward.
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I never get my news from the main stream media, I am a big fan of reporters without borders and their press freedom campaign, the news can be found on this multi lingual site http://www.rsf.org/\nThe best way to look at any news is as an opinion, only when you have gathered the opinions of as many people as possible can you form your own opinion.
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Older and serious people want to hear about politics. Younger people want to hear entertainment news. About me, I like hearing celebrity gossips and any info involving science & biology
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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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Your local news web sites, or the national news sites.
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Good question. I'd say the public, as they generally don't know more than what the media tell them- which is often an overblown version of the truth.
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The media lies because all the major media outlets are owned by big corporations, and therefore WANT the GOP to remain in control and keep giving them their free ride. \n\nEven The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central has better reporting than the major networks, and they claim to be fake news. \n\nIf you want to see the REAL journalism you have to watch Democracy Now and INN on LINK or Free Speech TV (FSTV).