Sunday, February 24, 2008

The journey so far

What is news? Has the definition changed really? News used to be defined something like: dog bites man (not news) but man bites dog (that IS news). In other words, news used to be something that someone assessed as being new, exciting, revolutionary, never-before-seen. A different definition could see news as being something which is important-to-know to many people, eg a tsunami affecting several countries. So if blogging is a new way to spreading news, or, as in the tutorial, making news a 2-way street, is it really news at all? News spread on blogs and other social networking tools may be recent and of interest to some, and therefore classed as 'news', but is it really news in the broader sense? I suppose this is illustrative of the way in which the world has changed or the usage of English words.

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