There are three essential functions of news to inform, to educate and to entertain the audience. For an event to be considered news, it must be deemed newsworthy by showing its timeliness, proximity, prominence, consequence and human interest (Mishra 7). William Randolph Hearst once made a distinction between the interesting and what he called the merely important news. The interesting news attracts the mass public the merely important is addressed to small publics. Generally speaking, every…
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