How special are news in the world today? One may
wonder about that but truth to be told, news is something great to know about, without
news we wouldn’t know what the world is all about, we wouldn’t know what the latest
information across the world. News is published minutes after minutes hours
after hours, and on a daily basis, news is published in newspapers, televisions,
radios, and also on social media such as Facebook, YouTube, blogs and twitter. News
is categorised in very many ways such as hard news, soft news and investigation
news but for my topic am looking at hard news.
Hard news Stories make up the bulk of news reporting
that consists of basic facts like who, what, when, where and how, hard News are
about important events such as politics, government actions, International
happenings, social conditions, the economy, crime, the environment and science,
also has significance for large number of people reading about them and usually
filled at the front pages of newspapers and the lead top stories of televisions,
radios and social media like Facebook, twitter and blogs, hard news also is
news that is up to minute on events that happen and reported straight away
after happening. Henceforth, am looking at only political issues hear that from
under hard news from different online blogs.
In addition to the above, one of the examples of
hard news from the political side is “Obama cries over guns, then frees more
terrorists” Published January 08, 2016 by FoxNews.com, another headline was “This is the moment
Obama cried during his speech on gun control” published on January 6, 2016 by
fusion blog. These blogs used different forms of headlines to describe about
the same news which is about H.E Barack Obama crying in public over guns in the
U.S.A. In his speech, the president explained the new measures and stronger
background checks, better enforcement of gun safety laws already in place,
better support for mentally ill Americans, and improved technology that would
make it harder to steal guns, among others won’t rob citizens of their Second
Amendment rights. Rather, Obama said, they would offer more protection of other
rights, like peaceful assembly. But there was one moment that brought H.E
Barack Obama to tears with an emotional face, Obama pointed to recent incidents
where minority groups were targeted and killed by guns and finally this was the
emotional moment and memory when he had to shed tears but this is the news that
made not only my day but to many across the world, why would a president really
cry, it looks to funny for me.
videos of obama shedding tears while giving speech
More to the above, the second example of hard news
from the political issues is, “Rebel Leader Machar set for big return as South
Sudan coalition govt up in January” published by africacradle.com on 15 JANUARY
2016. Another blog headline was “South Sudan: Rebels Welcome Kiir's Decision to
Form Joint Transitional Government” published
by allafrica.com on 8 JANUARY 2016.
president salva kiir and rebel commander Riek Macharin pictures last year on their coalition.
video about south sudan coalition of last year.
The third news is also from the political side which
is “Uproar As John Magufuli Orders All ‘Foreigners’ To Surrender Their Jobs To
Tanzanians” published on 8th January 2016 by niaje.com, another
headline from the star.co.ke is “Magufuli wants illegal foreigners deported”
published on 9th January 2016. All the two news approached this news
from a different angle but all on the same topic of president Magufuli wanting
to deport all foreigners working in Tanzania. It’s so bad that when a new
president comes in, the economy has to go down in most African countries. The newly
elected president Magufuli of Tanzania wants all foreigner workers in his
country to pack and go back to their home countries so that his people can have
jobs and this time round his actions have left everyone wondering why and how
he would do this to them. He has ordered all foreigners without working permits
and residence permits to leave the country as soon as possible.
Video about Tanzania
government justifies the expulsion of foreigners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28xfO60OudQ
Apparently in my own understanding, the most
important news is always on the top of newspapers, televisions, radios and
social media like Facebook, twitter and always go viral and the
least news is always at the end of newspapers, televisions and radios. Most of
the hard news especially political news is on the front pages of newspapers
because it always includes current events and so do audiences need to know what’s
immediately taking place across the world. Political news headlines are always accurate
and true with good headlines interesting to read for everyone who seems to be
interested also. Unfortunately the worst thing about political news most times
is always involving in conflicts between governments and oppositions. Last but
not least I quote the most quote about politics “politics is a dirty game”, no
wonder why there is so much conflicts, violence’s and fights in politics.
References
allAfrica.com, (2016). South Sudan: Rebels Welcome
New Coalition Govt. [online] Available at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201601090078.html
[Accessed 15 Jan. 2016].
Fusion, (2016). This is the Moment Obama Cried
During His Speech on Gun Control. [online] Available at:
http://fusion.net/story/251507/obama-gun-control-speech/ [Accessed 15 Jan.
2016].
Gordon, (2016). Obama cries over guns, then frees
more terrorists | Fox News. [online] Fox News. Available at:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/01/08/obama-cries-over-guns-then-frees-more-terrorists.html
[Accessed 15 Jan. 2016].
January, R. (2016). Rebel Leader Machar set for big
return as South Sudan coalition govt up in January. [online] Africa Cradle.
Available at:
http://www.africacradle.com/2015/12/11/rebel-leader-machar-set-for-big-return-as-south-sudan-coalition-govt-up-in-january/
[Accessed 15 Jan. 2016].
Kingsley, D. (2016). Uproar As John Magufuli Orders
All ‘Foreigners’ To Surrender Their Jobs To Tanzanians. [online] Niaje!.
Available at:
http://niaje.com/uproar-as-john-magufuli-orders-all-foreigners-to-surrender-their-jobs-to-tanzanians/
[Accessed 15 Jan. 2016].
The Star, Kenya, (2016). Magufuli wants illegal
foreigners deported. [online] Available at:
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/09/magufuli-wants-illegal-foreigners-deported_c1272708
[Accessed 15 Jan. 2016].