News always attracts people's attention, curiosity and criticism because of its complex nature: be it interesting informative, entertaining, convincing or giving knowledge to its audience. There are many kinds of news events. Yet, people do not read every news story because of many reasons. In each newspaper, there are basically two kinda of news events, namely:
Hard news event are the killings and important news stories that are timely and are reported almost automatically by most newspapers, redio stations, and television outlets, such as a murder, a big drugs seizure or the speeches of leading goverment officials.
Soft news events are those stories which are not so immediately important or timely to a wide audience such as a lunch to honor a retiring school custodian or a car wash by fourth-graders to raise money for a classmate with AIDS.