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Radio
News, Reporting and Production
MCM515
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LESSON
09
TYPES
OF NEWS STORIES III
SIMPLE
NEWS
Crime
Stories:
Contempt
Of Court
It
is a punishable act of disobeying an
order made by a judge or
court of law or behaving in such a
way that
the
usual process of the court is
interrupted.
Conspiracy
Conspiracy
is a secret plan made with
other people to do something bad, illegal
or against someone's
wishes.
If the plan is illegal and the conspirators
are exposed and held
responsible then it
becomes
cognizable
crime. Cognizable crime is the
one that allows police or
law to come into
action.
Gambling
Gambling
is betting money or some
other property, moveable or
immoveable, on any game or
action.
Drug
Trafficking
Drug
trafficking is trading in illegal drugs
and this is universally recognized crime.
In some countries the
people
involved in this crime are
awarded even capital (death)
punishment. The people caught dealing
in
this
illegal trade make
news.
Smuggling
Illegal
transportation of goods within a
country or across the border is
smuggling.
Disturbing
Peace (Riots)
Riot
is a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled
public gathering. Riots are
carried out normally by
pressure groups
in
a society to demonstrate protest against
government policies or to achieve some
vested interests. If the
riot
turns into hooliganism, public property
is put in danger and peace
is attempted to be sabotaged, it
makes
news.
Rape
It
is a heinous crime of having sex
with someone against his or
her will. Rapist is the one
who commits the
crime.
WEATHER
NEWS
In
routine weather news items,
following areas are
covered:
1.
Temperature (highest and lowest)
2.
Humidity
3.
Rain or Sun
Sometimes
the weather may become the
lead story or one of the major
stories of the day. The
weather
aftereffects
do not disappear with dawn
or dusk, so in case the weather story is
the most important or
one
of
the important news items in a
news bulletin, its follow up
story goes on and on until
the repercussions of
the
story get diminished.
The
story about the weather will be
treated as special news item
if:
The
weather results in disaster;
floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts,
dust storms, thunder
and
lightening, blizzards (snowstorm), or
other weather oddities which
cause deaths or
serious
damages.
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There
are sudden changes, cold
waves, early snows, heavy
rains or other out of the
ordinary
conditions.
Previous
records are broken, like,
highest ever or lowest ever
temperature, quantity of rainfalls
breaking
the previous records.
If
the schedule of any special event is
disturbed owing to unexpected weather
conditions, for
instance,
because of continuous heavy rains
there is a kind of flood situation in the
city;
consequently,
the school exams may be
postponed.
The
affect of bad weather on crops
and drought is expected, it
will be news.
Lunar
Months
The
significance of lunar months may
posses any place in those
countries where the Muslims are
not in
majority,
or it may not carry any
weight for people who belong to the religions
other than Islam, but
for
Muslims
and in Islamic countries the moon
sighting of lunar months is of immense importance.
All the
rituals,
festivals and celebrations of Muslims
are marked and estimated
with the sighting of the first
moon
The
most important to be reported is, whether
the moon is sighted or not,
especially the moon of
Muharram-ul-Haraam,
Rabi-ul-Awwal, Ramadhan, Shawwal,
and Dhil-Hajj.
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