Take a journey back in time to the 1950s and the news as we heard it
on the radio was perhaps twenty four hours old at best, the TV news of
which reports were still being made in the cinema newsreel genre were
sometimes as much as three days old, unless of course it was sports
news. Move forward to the late sixties and early seventies and reports
from the front line of the Vietnam War could be twenty four hours old;
however, with the introduction of electronic news gathering (ENG) all
that changed with news reports coming live in many cases from locations
all over the world.
When it came to entertainment news UK it wasnt much better, and
invariably something which happened on the other side of the Atlantic
still taking up to a day to be reported over the other side; viewers and
listeners would certainly not have had the constant flow of celebrity
gossip and news which is available nowadays. In the eighties and
nineties, as news gathering and reporting became more mainstream and the
public hunger for news - any news became almost insatiable, the
internet reared its (ugly) head.
The difference with news gathering now, combined with a large proportion
of entertainment news and celebrity gossip is it is located online,
with headlines and content changing almost as fast as Hugh Grant changes
girlfriends (sic) and much of it coming from anecdotal sources and of
course reporters with a scoop. The internet has also made it possible
for just about anyone to create a news outlet, although in many cases
the result is not as slick as one which is professionally produced and
edited.
When one wants to read the cutting edge and most up to date breaking
news UK web surfers just need to type in the words in a search engine
such as œlatest news and hit enter and thousands of news stories
and entertainment, celebrity and reality stuff will be returned to the
monitor.
We have never been more in touch with the outside world than we are
today, with constantly streaming hard news, entertainment news and
celebrity gossip; even the weather seems to change every ten minutes
juts to fill an insatiable desire to know what is happening in the world
around us.