The news media has traditionally covered a wide range of topics, including important events, celebrity life, cooking, fashion, and unusual events. However, until recently, news reporters had clear rules about how news stories were written. Events of national or international importance were reported with seriousness, while stories about celebrities, such as movie stars or athletes, were brief and usually light in tone -- if they were reported at all. Today, unfortunately, news reporting is more likely to entertain than to inform.
The main problem with today's news is that it aims to excite people, rather than make them think. Reporters tell dramatic, shocking stories that are designed to make people who read or watch them become curious, and want to know more. But are these stories actually informing people? News agencies defend their practice by saying that people no longer like newspapers or news programs that provide boring factual news items. They say that they have been forced to change the way news is reported, to keep the attention of an audience that is used to being entertained. Sadly, today's news providers are more worried about being boring, than in clearly reporting the events of the day.