we the media? Part 1

what is news? i thing every thing is interesting is news, and it tall people what happening at the first time. In Mitchell Stephens book 'A History of news' definite news is:“New information about a subject of some public interest that is shared with some portion of the public” (Stephens pg4) The most important of news is how fast the message can be sent to the audience--News is a time-dependent phenomenon and there are great rewards for being able to deliver a news story first. The medium of news can be newspaper, TV, radio or Internet. Ant the Internet become the most fast medium to deliver the news, for example, more and more people search the day news from BBC websites or Google, they can get the most fast news form there; also the news agencies updated their information at the first time on their own website such as the UK;s environment which has a website that update every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day.( lecture 5)