What Exactly Is News and How Does It Work?
Curiously, for a publication called a newspaper, no one has ever coined a standard definition of news. But for the most part, news usually falls under one broad classification-the abnormal. It is human folly, mechanical failures and natural disasters that often make the news.
Reporters are a newspapers front-line eyes and ears. Reporters glean(收集) information from many sources, some public, such as police records, and others private, such as a government informant. Occasionally, a reporter will go to jail rather than reveal the name of a confidential source for a news story. American newspapers proudly consider themselves the fourth branch of government-the watchdog branch -that exposes legislative, executive and judicial misbehavior.
Some reporters are assigned to beats, or an area of coverage, such as the courts, city hall, education, business, medicine and so forth. Others are called general assignment reporters, which means they are on call for a variety of stories such as accidents, civic events and human-interest stories.
In the movies, reporters have exciting, frenzied(狂热的)and dangerous jobs as they live a famous pronouncement of the newspaper business: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Although a few members of the media have been killed as a result of investigations into wrongdoing, newspaper work for the great majority of reporters is routine.
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