What is news?

So, What is News?

Answer : Noun,

News, as in a newspaper or television report, that deals with formal or serious topics and events.

Basically it's,

-Information about recent & important events

-Having sufficiently interesting quality to be reported

-Found in newspaper, TV, radio, and the new media; Internet.

So, you must be wonder like what the heck is this post about.

The main story happened two days ago, was reading news online, and was browsing til I came upon this one catchy headline.

"7 years on jigsaw, one piece missing."

(click the title or this link to the news)

I was wondering what the story was about.

..about Jigsaw?

or SAW; the movie.

or did a Jigsaw puzzle kill someone, or an accomplishment done?

or something farfetched.

It seriously WAS about a missing piece.

..it's like the classic "my dog ate my homework" story.

well, it'll be no fun it I told the whole story here. Do feel free to read the article.

My favourite part of it is, as quoted,

"The family fear the missing piece has been thrown away by mistake or eaten by one of Harris's pet dogs."

So, the whole point of THIS post is actually this.

I wanted to know the relevance of the news with what NEWS is about.

First point, Recent / Important? --- It is recent cos it's reported on 20th May 2010. Importance of it...hmmm...?

Second point, Interesting values? --- I guess, somewhat interesting.

Third point, found IN the Internet.

So, in conclusion, it IS somewhat news?

But I though news or the media was some sort of way to pass a message or to inform the people about happening, significant event which could/may/will/ already DO involve them.

--like murder cases, robbery, inform them to be aware, to be more careful, etc.

--or elections, voting, for democracy, etc.

--food or anything interesting; that's more news worthy.

--Happenings in the country/world.

...so I'm just questioning the relevance of the topic and News.

Laughs. It could be just me wanting to know.

Giggles.

Cheers.