There are lots of questions about what constitutes news. Powerful editors decide what people read and what they don’t. Journalists decide what is worthy of investigation and what is not. Advertisers, special interests, lawyers and lobbyists defend the boundaries of inquiry against themselves or their industry. All this plays out in a delicate dance of “crowd sourced censorship” Whatever survives this gauntlet of execution becomes THE NEWS.
So, I took a snapshot of today’s news and ran it through the “History Test”:
