Title: News - Wikipedia
Headings: News
News
Contents
Meaning
Etymology
Newness
Commodity
Tone
Newsworthiness
History
Folk news
Government proclamations
Early news networks
Asia
Europe
Rise of the newspaper
Newswire
Radio and television
Internet
News media today
Newspaper
Television
Internet
News agencies
Global news system
New World Information and Communication Order
Further transformation in global news flow
News values
Social organization of news production
News organizations
Relationship with institutions
State control
Public relations
News consumption
Social and cultural cohesion
Public sphere
News events
News making
Psychological effects
Influence
Influence of sponsorship
See also
References
Sources and further reading
External links

Content: Whereas historians tend to view events as causally related Manifestations of underlying processes, news stories tend to describe events in isolation, and to exclude discussion of the relationships between them. News conspicuously describes the world in the present or immediate past, even when the most important aspects of a news story have occurred long in the past—or are expected to occur in the future. To make the news, an ongoing process must have some "peg", an event in time which anchors it to the present moment. Relatedly, news often addresses aspects of reality which seem unusual, deviant, or out of the ordinary. Hence the famous dictum that "Dog Bites Man" is not news, but "Man Bites Dog" is. Another corollary of the newness of news is that, as new technology enables new media to disseminate news more quickly, 'slower' forms of communication may move away from 'news' towards 'analysis'. Commodity
According to some theories, "news" is whatever the news industry sells. Journalism, broadly understood along the same lines, is the act or occupation of collecting and providing news. From a commercial perspective, news is simply one input, along with paper (or an electronic server) necessary to prepare a final product for distribution. A news agency supplies this resource "wholesale" and publishers enhance it for retail.