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Newspapers: Past, Present, and Future

News is simply defined as "a report of a recent event; something

one
not heard of before"(Websters, 282). With its lack in its

definition, news is so much more than a report of recent events in

todays world. Today, the underlying purpose of news is to "provide

facts upon which decisions are based" (Mencher, 56), making

journalism the work of gathering news. Neil Postman says that news is

"more often made rather than gathered". He goes on to say that it

consists of information that a journalist believes is important or

what they think their audience will think is important. There are

many different mediums in which one receives news these days,

including, internet, radio and television. One of the ways that has

been around the longest is the newspaper.

Today newspapers are publications that come out regularly

containing news, information and advertisements. Newspapers usually

meet four different criteria: Publicity, periodicity, currency, and

universality. Publicity means that its contents are reasonably

accessible to the public and is well circulated. Periodicity has to

do with the timing of publishing. In order for a publishing to be

considered a newspaper it needs to be published at regular times.

Currency deals with the information of the news itself. A newspaper

usually presents news that is current and applicable to it's readers.

Universality deals with the types of news that is covered. The topics

in a newspaper is often the reason why people pick up a newspaper to

begin with. When a publication meets these four criteria they are

usually considered a newspaper. Newspapers have been around for a

long time, they have always played an important part in society and

while still today an important source of information, are slowly

dying.

The Beginning of Newspapers

Although what is thought to be the

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