[The] story is told of a music critic who was sent to a concert
hall in Chicago to review a performance. When he found the hall burning
down, he went home and went to bed. In the morning he explained, “There
was no story. The concert hall burned down.”I trust these stories are apocryphal, but they serve to illustrate the difficulty of defining news.
There is some truth in the statement that good news is not news. Good
news is the stuff of life. It is what happens to most of us most of the
time. We survive. We prosper.But if happiness was all we had to read about, we’d be very bored indeed. — Jack Smith, LA Times (1987)
Similar:
Couples in successful relationships always use these 6 phrases: 'You'll grow stronger both...
Students are trusting software like this to do their work.
‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading ma...
Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google.
What have my students learned about creative nonfiction writing? During class they are col...
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
