So what is “news”? Long-time students of journalism and communication would all explain and define: “news is new information made known”. (It’s not news if it’s not known to people even though it might exist!) Sufficiently explained, I’ll concede. But often news is used to include recent or current events, reports, factual, actual immediate or fast happening, even personal ideas and opinions.
For my most brief offering today I emphasise the traditional academic meaning of news. Even as the specific category of news and its frequency tend to depress me into a stage of allowing negativity to overwhelm. All this in a land named Guyana that is hustling to emerge from prolonged periods of political and developmental blight. As economic promise beckons for a home-based population not even one million strong.
