What is "news"?

[trof]

I was gonna get into a whole thing here about what news is, or should be.
But I'm a bit under the weather and too lazy, so I'll just cut to the chase.

Is a man in Santa Claus suit killing a bunch of people and torching a house "news"?

Oh hell yeah, it's sensational, and unusual, and grisly, and macabre.
And I sells newspapers and gets TV ratings.
But is it really "news"?
:shrug:

[stillcool]

1. It's a moral lesson...

you better not be naughty or Santa will fuck you up.

[panader0]

2. "There's nothing new under the sun"

It's all just variations on the theme of human folly.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Yes... that's news.... of a sort. But the Pope "calling for world peace",

people returning gifts to department stores, and the interminable weather reports ( most of us have windows, don't we?). That's not news.

[sam sarrha]

4. its an Acronym, ..for North East West South.. information from all directions