As I read the headlines of the past few months it's rather interesting to note that there is no "news" per se.
Is the fact that there is fighting in the middle east really breaking news? As a matter of fact the biggest headline in the news would really be "For the first time in 4,760 years, not a knife was drawn and not a shot was fired in the middle east." That would be news worth reading.
Is a professional athlete's use of performance enhancing drugs really news?
Is a celebrity doing something stupid news to anyone?
As I ponder these questions I wonder, what is "news". The Jason Smith dictionary defines "news" as a group or collection of "new". It also defines new as something never seen before. So based on the most accurate definition in the world (that would be the one above). Here is today's news.
And there you have it. All the new (yes, the space above was intentionally left blank).
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