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News is an endlessly different, but inevitably repetitive form of information. It comes in a variety of forms aimed at keeping people up to date about what is happening in the house next door and on the other side of world. It is a mixture of licensed gossip and eye witness accounts, seemingly transparant, but, and I should know as a journalist, is actually subject to a rigid set of rules. News, in one sense, is only news because it has happened before. Journalism is the pursuit of boiling down the near infinite complexity of life into a rich soup that is easy on the digestive system. For that to happen, it must be predictable. Journalists make choices to view the world in one particular way. Never trust journalism. Nothing can replace experience.

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