NEWS ITEM..!!

who of you who subscribe to the newspaper every day ..?
do you read it ..?
or only the parents who read it ..?
everyone must have seen and heard the news ..
the problem ..
if you all can make a new news,.?
definitely for those who want to become a news writer will always be associated with this ..
so, who do not know, let's learn together..!!



__News item is factual text which infroms the readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important__

- Function of news item :
Social function of news items is to infrom readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

- Generic structure:
* Newsworthy event(s) : recounts the events in summary form.
* Background event(s) : elaborate what happend , to WHOM, in WHAT circumstance.
* Sources : Comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event.

- Significant Granma features:
~ Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline.
~ Generally using Simple Past Tense
~ Use of material priocesses to retell the event
~ Using Action verbs, ex: run, go, kill, etc
~ Using saying verbs, ex: say, tell
~ Focus on circumstances
~ Use of projecting verbal processes in sources stage.

There an some rules that can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible:
1. The passive voice is used without the appropriate from of “be’
2. It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used
3. The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing,but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
4. To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive
5. Headlines are not always complete sentence

Linguistic features :

* Action verbs.
* Verbal verbs.
* Mental verbs.
* Temporal circumstances.
* Spatial circumstances.
* Specific participants.

- A headline is the text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article
below it.
Read some newspaper headlines below:
1. Michael Jackson’s last album “This is it” will be on the market in November.
2. Rupiah becomes stronger at the end of this week

example of news item..

LAPAN: "Crop Circle" Sleman No Trace UFO

          Sleman (AFP) - National Aeronautics and Space Agency confirms "crop circles" found in Hamlet Rejosari, Jogotirto Village, dangerous District, Sleman District, Yogyakarta Special Region, not a trace "unidentification flying objects" or UFOs.

"From our observation and investigation at the site, we do not agree or disagree if the 'crop circle' is a trace of the UFO, because it is purely man-made," said Head Utilization Center for Space Science National Aeronautics and Space Institute (LAPAN) Sri Kaloka, at locations Jogotirto Village on Tuesday afternoon.

According to him, the patterns of "crop circles" of this kind previously found in several countries in Europe, and several other countries.

"The patterns of this kind are common in Europe, and a number of countries in other continents, this man-made, only if made abroad in the area of grain crops, sugar cane or maize, whereas here was made in the area of paddy crop," he said.

He said one proof that the "corp circle" that is man-made rice stalks lying that collapsed showed suppressed due to torn down to its roots, not the pattern overwritten.

"In addition, these patterns are also many that are not symmetrical with each other," he said.

Sri Kaloka said the instructions that most reinforces is the former finding of a stick or pipe hole in the middle of the circle and on the other sides, a strong suspicion that used to move the tool axis in a rod-suppressing rice.

"In the middle, we also find that there are roads and tracks humans as indicated by the rice stalks lying set aside and laid back. This shows that the previous one into the circle," he said.

He said it also found around the circle pattern and the pattern was found in some rice straw that is not depressed until they collapsed.

"It also indicates that the pattern was made man, because there are parts which are not depressed," he said.

In addition, LAPAN team also found no traces of fire around the circle, including waste combustion engine and exhaust gas.

"Rice rods that collapse all the former pressure, and no ex-pieces with a sharp object," he said.