Julian Price

Google Current Events and Affairs - Sex Scandal, Celebrity Gossip, World News, Health and Sports


Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009

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What are current events? Most of us I am sure, would give an answer that would probably include the word "news" in it. That's probably fair but what is news and what makes news, newsworthy?

I found an interesting definition on Wikipedia regarding newsworthiness which says, " Normal people are not newsworthy unless they meet an unusual circumstance or tragedy. The news divides the population into two groups; those few whose lives are newsworthy, and the multitude who are born, live out their lives and die without the news media paying them any significant notice."

It goes on to suggest that, " The news is often used for escapism and thus normal events are not newsworthy. Whether the subject is love, birth, weather, or crime, journalists' tastes inevitably run toward the unusual, the extraordinary."

As far as the English language is concerned a current event could be construed as any event that is current, for example walking the dog, tying a shoe lace or anything else that may be "happening" in a life. The Merriam Webster online dictionary has one of its definitions of the word, "event" simply as, " something that happens". So, should something happening currently, therefore be a current event?

To make Google news, it is clear that the event is going to need, to at least appear a little out of the ordinary. For example, for most of us cutting our lawns is really only going to be witnessed by our families and neighbours and that's probably the way we would like to keep it, but if Britney Spears was seen cutting her lawn, you can almost guarantee that's going to be all over Google and Twitter and on celebrity TV shows too!

Going shopping is something most of us enjoy doing with complete anonymity (apart from the credit card companies monitoring our every transaction) but if President Barack Obama were to walk into his local Walmart with an army of security, then that's news!

If Joe Bloggs is having an affair with someone that isn't Mrs Bloggs, it may raise a few eyebrows locally but as soon as a high profile celebrity is rumoured to have been unfaithful it's a full on sex scandal and sex scandals are perhaps the biggest of all current events when it comes to Google searches, Twitter tweets and paparazzi pages.

Health issues only seem to make headlines either when there is a major scientific breakthrough or a dramatic world scare, such as the ongoing swine flu pandemic, but you can rest assured that if someone such as Sarah Palin, Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston were seen visiting their doctor it would be all over the news.

Sports events and results always seem to register high on the news scale. However, I wonder how sport would be reported on if all the money was stripped out, the celebrity was eliminated and it relied on its old roots of local rivalry and bragging rights to carry its media presence?

While a battle plays out between Newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch and Google itself over the very issue of how news should be delivered to the masses and how much should or should not be free and available online, the internet just keeps on ploughing ahead, spreading its own version of news and current events, in its own way.
Julian has diplomas in freelance journalism (with distinction), copywriting and proofreading. He is also a creative writer and poet who writes both professionally and for pleasure. Julian has written articles for an internet marketing company and although this medium is often restricted by topic, his writing still maintains a unique and often humourous style, with many of his articles achieving good results on search engines. He has found the discipline involved with this kind of work to be a great writing exercise and believes it enhances and improves other areas of his writing. Julian is becoming an established freelance writer and many of his articles here at searchwarp are a showcase of the variety and quality of his work.

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