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What is News and Why?
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- Digital resource centre
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- 2015
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- Digital resource centre
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This is Mika Brzezinski , the co-anchor of “Morning Joe,” a news talk show on MSNBC. In this segment, the anchors are on camera, chatting, about to launch their daily summary of the top stories of the day. Mika Brzezinski and her co-anchor had been talking about U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar’s critique of the President’s war strategy when she looked down to see the first story on her script was Paris Hilton’s release from jail, which was getting a lot of news coverage at the time.
Brzezinski swears it was a spontaneous response and not a publicity stunt. What do you think she is reacting to? If you are going to be effective consumers of news you need to have an understanding of how Paris Hilton’s term in jail came to be the lead story on so many newscasts