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 newspaper needs both but the balance between the elements of its market gives each its peculiar character (Mishra 8). Television and newspapers need to produce interesting news because that will generate the highest viewer ship and therefore make the most profits…
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