Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.
Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.
The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.
The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.
When officials of a government, or any organization. Exceeds and abuses their position of authority for the intent of personal gain. Eg. I’m a government official in charge of highway repair. I award a repair contractor with a $2 million dollar road repair contract. Providing he builds me a mile long driveway to one of my houses for free. By concealing the cost of my driveway into the highway repair contract.
When officials of a government, or any organization. Exceeds and abuses their position of authority for the intent of personal gain. Eg. I’m a government official in charge of highway repair. I award a repair contractor with a $2 million dollar road repair contract. Providing he builds me a mile long driveway to one of my houses for free. By concealing the cost of my driveway into the highway repair contract.
While I would love to blame this on the Reagan administration’s getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, the truth is that this was the end result of a long, slow process. I have seen issues of TV Guide from the late 1950s that were beginning to remark on how TV seemed to turn everything, even news programs, into entertainment. In a way, the availability of television, a visual medium, made us all voyeurs— looking for exciting and memorable images. And as more people watched, they then wanted to see something else that was exciting and memorable.
By the mid-1960s, studies began showing that people now had shorter attention spans than they did several decades earlier; and that meant if a TV program wanted to get good ratings, it had to find new ways to hold the audience’s attention. Programs that were serious and formal (and perceived as educational) did not get the ratings that faster-paced and exciting programs did. So, gradually, the idea that even a news broadcast should be delivered as a visual magazine, in order to hold the audience’s interest, became the dominant viewpoint. And by the 1980s, when the Fairness Doctrine officially ended, the process of making news more suitable for folks with short attention spans was already well underway.
This is a question journalists and editors have been debating for centuries, and because it’s a difficult question to answer, this one may go a little long. So…depending on what has happened that day, a news story might be about what the powerful and the wealthy are doing. Or it might be about what the leader of the country (or the leader of the government) is doing. It might be about crime, or scandal, or political feuds, or controversial issues. It might be locally-focused, or it might involve the entire country (or some other place in the world). In a typical newscast (or in a typical newspaper), news stories can be about all these things, and more— including sports, entertainment, music, the weather, etc.
A news story is a story that informs the public. It is usually about something interesting and important that is happening currently, and it contains the 5 Ws and an H (who did, what did they do, when did they do it, where did they do it, why did they do it, and how did they do it). So, if it’s a crime story about a robbery at a well-known department store, it would contain those 5Ws and an H, but in telling the story, it might also contain quotes from witnesses or the police— whatever would add to the information. And it would be told conversationally: not like a long list of facts. Also, a news story does not guess or speculate: it tells what is known, as factually as possible.
A typical newscast on radio or TV involves selecting the biggest and most important events and then crafting stories that are concise yet thorough, using sound or images to better explain. A newspaper or magazine story contains more details, but it still needs to be told interestingly. Not all of the day’s events are considered newsworthy: presidents and prime ministers give lots of speeches, but not all of them will be in the newscast (a speech about a major policy change or a response to a crisis might be). Celebrities say and do lots of things, but not all of them are newsworthy. Weather happens, but a tornado might be the lead story, while the fact that it’s going to rain tomorrow will not (unless there has been a drought and the possibility of rain becomes news).
Each day, reporters select the stories they believe are the most important for their audience to know. But they want to tell those stories in a way that holds the public’s attention. Years ago, stories were told in a very formal and serious style. Today, the topics may be serious, but the reporters and anchors tend to be less formal and they focus on making sure the story is understandable. And while there is continues to be a debate over which stories are newsworthy and which ones are not, reporting the news thoroughly, fairly, and factually is a very important activity; and those who do it well will earn the public’s trust.
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