news what is the purpose of news

what is the purpose of news

• inform 
• educate
• entertain
• profit
• influence 

useful facts

• newspapers are not PSB (like the BBC) they are commercial publications. Over three quarters (77.8%) of the brattish press is owned by a handful of billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by lord Rothermore and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch - between them these two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press
• newspapers and their online publications (example of synergy and convergence) are not legally obliged to provide a un-biased public information service. there are ethical and moral codes of conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry. 

The History of news 

news is no longer a spectator sport because of the internet. you can now be a passive spectator, creating your own news and sharing media

I would say news is better now because of the ways you can view it. for example, you can now view news on virtually anything, ranging from a phone, tablet, computer possibly even a smart fridge. although you could argue that news was better back then because there was not a thing called 'fake news' so anything you seen you believe.

a broadcast of news