Showing posts with label What is news?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What is news?. Show all posts

Behavioral Change

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Media provide adequate information to people. Information is knowledge and knowledge is power. It means information make the people powerful by knowledge. The functions of media are to inform, to educate, to entertain, to persuade and to socialize.
Media make people mature, so if the watch, heard or read the news related accident the do not be panic. Due to repetition of these types of news time to time, people take it without panic. People draw their attention to receive information by media. So information has been established as basic needs of people. They don not look to sky to know the weather of the day, but they tune to radio or television. Media has been appropriate medium for information which is related with daily human life. So dependency to media is growing up day by day.
Media provide in formation as quick as they can. These types of flow of information make behavior of people quick. They can do their duty on time. Media grow consciousness of people and consciousness makes them empowered.
We can know many individuals who are from different sector. It makes people socialized as well as culture of collaboration will grow by media. Discussion and interaction is possible with the help of media. Behaviour of people to reach to conclusion will be developed.


Introduction of news

News comes from plural form of new. The origin of news is 'Nova', which is Latin word. Nova means new thing. So news is new information, message, event and invention.
According to Oxford Learners' Dictionary, news is information about something that has happened recently or reports of recent event hat appear in newspaper or on television or the internet.
Harold Evan has said news is people. We can understand news is concerning matter to people. News is kinds of task in journalism, which fulfill the right of know of people. People always want to know what happening cotemporary society of world is.
Facts in information are backbone of news. So news is closely related with fact. But all fact is not news. So, the combination of fact and journalistic presentation makes news. Journalistic presentation means the writing form of news.
Reporters gather information and they write or type in certain form of news. The editors correct fact and figure. After purifying, media disseminate or broadcast it. So news collection and selection is major task of journalism and it is major content of mass media.
People want to read, view and listen the matter, which is hidden. Reporters search the hidden matter to disclose. So news is the reported matter by reporter. News is not imaginary and fiction type of writing. It means news is nonfiction reporting. News must be factual.
The facts, which is not written in journalistic form is not news. Gossip, rumor, propaganda, literature, history are not news, though they are in written form.

Some definition of news

News is the timely reports of fact or opinion of either internet or importance or both, to considerable of people.
Michael V. Charnlay
When a dog a dog bite a man that is not news; but a man bites a dog, which is news.
John B. Bogan
News is a new piece of information about significant and recent event that affect the audience and is of interest them.
Paul De Maeseneer