A failed arrest of a suspected criminal of theft at Glo offices last night resulted in night curfew as police surrounded the Glo main offices. The criminal surrendered to the police after five hours search.
It is so compelling because of the kind of guard that Glo company offices have and the kind of attack the offices were exposed on that night. It is hard to believe that a one-person attack could lead to a community night curfew. One person could have been caught easily by the police. It will be interesting to find out how this man was armed and who he is in the news that follows that story headline above.
The concept of prominence is exemplified in this story, while others are all put into consideration. The news’s timeliness is on par with the required time that it is supposed to be delivered though it is in line with traditional timeliness (Eadie, 2009). The above news is on what happened last night when most people were at bed rest, and therefore delivering this news on the next morning became recommended and in line with the elasticity of time.
The immediacy of the release of news has challenged the above concepts. Widholm (2016) reported that news reaches people in the current world just in time they are happening due to technological advancement. News is presented without the focus of the necessary concepts that used to be followed. People prefer news as it is, live from the scene. That’s why people would get the news first before the mainstream media houses present the news. Many people in the scene of anything considered to be news uploads every content and occurrence over the internet, which is later accessed by many people as raw facts.
The news
release has highly been affected by technological advancement, which today expects the news to reach people instantly. All the required concepts for quality news have formally been put on halt as media houses move with speed all the time to get news.
Reference
Widholm, A. (2016). Tracing online news in motion: Time and duration in the study of liquid journalism. Digital journalism, 4(1), 24-40.
Eadie, F, W. (2009). 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook: Chapter 65: “The Changing Nature of ‘News’”