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Too many things happen every day to report.

So journalists apply news judgment or news

lalues o c oose w a ge s pu s e orbroadcast.

That judgment varies from city to city andcountry to country, an even rom pu cat onto publication.

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before

The latest develo ment in an on oin andimportant issue

A different angle to an issue or event Not: the UN had a meeting, issued a report, etc. B/c those things happen all the time When a dog bits a man that is not news, but

when a man bites a dog that is news John B., ,

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Man bites snake in enyan tree tusslean bites snake in enyan tree tussleKenyan man gets away by biting snake on the tail during three-hour struggleA Kenyan man has described how he bit a python to try to escape its grip after the snakewrapped itself around him and dragged him up a tree.

-, ,in Malindi , Kenya , over the Easter weekend. After biting it on the tail, Nyaumbe managed tophone for help on his mobile."I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the bodyof a huge python," Nyaumbe told the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation. "I had to bite it as I

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He smothered the snake's head with his shirt to stop it biting him before police and villagersarrived to rescue him. The police tied a rope around Nyaumbe and the python, and pulled themdown from the tree.Peter Katam, superintendent of police in Malindi district, told the BBC that the officers had

."If it wasn't for the villagers and officers who helped him, he would have been swallowed by thesnake over the Easter holiday," said Katam.The 13ft snake was captured, put in a sack and taken to a sanctuary, but it later escaped andremains at large.This is not the first report of a man biting a snake. The Indian Telegraph in Calcutta reportedthat a man picked up a dying cobra and bit it in two in March last year. The snake died. In

January 2001, a South African man killed a python by biting it when the snake tried to coilitself around him in a narrow path near his home.

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The issue has currency because a baby panda

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Something that matters to many people

tsunami) New taxes Higher food or fuel prices: things that affect our

pocket books Election results

A new aid program

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Movie, TV or Rock stars Helen Clark or Ban Ki-moon

s s nown as prom nence or ce e r ty

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Where to invest money How to enroll in a new job program

ere to co ect a

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Yesterday? This is also called immediacy or timeliness

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Does it happens close to readers? events in other cities or countries

ews epen s on w ere you are

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Between political leaders Between sports teams

etween man an nature t ese stor es avea natural tension and drama

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Are compelling Stories that dont take too long to read

tor es to n a narrat ve ormEntertains as well as informsHey, Darling, did you read this?

But there are many different kinds ofreaders/listeners

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Weekly magazine targeting business people-officials, foreigners, academics, English

Radio station with nationwide signalrov nc a or commun y papers

International wire services, papersLocal language web sites