Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2008
If we review theoretically what for any book on Communication o Journalism means the term News, most agree to define it as the story of a new event or atypical, what happens in a certain place and that due to these novel and unusual conditions, it deserves to be known by the public. Or, moving it to a more constant and sound stage, the news is what a event it's to a story.
And in case they are still scratching their head with their index finger and moving their eyes to one side and the other, like my green apple face rattle did, when I pulled her by the rope when she was little or as if they were watching a Davis Cup game, because in reality what they are looking forward to is something more clarifying and complete than what I mentioned above, which had the sole intention of breaking the ice little by little, please, do not go away look for the solution on the competence, because as always, in ABC Definition, we have more reserved for you... come and read ...
And just as there are cooking, carpentry, modeling and even good manners schools, "the school of the news”Has proposed 5 fundamental questions to recognize if a fact is news or is going to die being fact, period. If you asked yourself what?who?, ¿why?, ¿when?, ¿where? About that situation that you think is news and you could not answer any of these questions, then, I continued participating because you are not facing full-fledged news.
Meanwhile, we can subdivide the news into hard and soft. The harsh ones are those that normally refer to facts that concern the jointpolitics and economical, while the soft, undoubtedly the most defenestrated by those who say and believe in "serious journalism", but the most sought after on the other hand, they are those that for example reveal some scandalous situation of some prominent personage.
And for those who want a good bath of hard and soft news, they can be found in industrial quantities in the pages of a newspaper, in the headlines of a news or radio program, in a long article in a magazine and why not also in the simple chat with a friend who tells us that Teresita, the group's spinster, finally found Prince Charming and marries us ...
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