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News and NewspapersNews is simply delineated as a report of a recent event something mavenhas not heard of before(Websters, 282). Conceding that it is inelaborate inits definition, intelligence is much more intricate as it succumbs to incarnatemoneymaking ideologies. The corporate midpoint of news is prevalent in the formof the newspaper a paper published periodically for circulating news that issold therefore making news a production line. In business the saying goes that thecustomer is always right making news subject to the demands of these consumers.The underlying purpose of news is to provide facts upon which decisions argonbased (Mencher, 56). Yet this purpose is tainted to accommodate the newspapersneed to sell papers. Journalism is the work of gathering news, thereforemaking the journalist succumb to the corporate needs of the newspaper. Thethree major newspapers of Toronto (Toronto solarise, Toronto Star and The Globe &Mail) discord in their journalistic techniques for the purpose of selling theirproduc t."News is more often do rather than gathered. And it is made on the basis ofwhat the journalist thinks is important or what the journalist thinks theaudience thinks is important" (Postman, 14).     The Toronto Sun focuses on the audience that yearns for entertainmentand adjuts its backchat selection and choice of articles to accommodate this needfor entertainment. The glitz and glamour of todays celebrities provide afantasy world in which the reader can escape. The Toronto Sun leaves no stoneuncovered as it stays on top of celebrity issues to accommodate their audience the average Joe with entertainment. Michael Jacksons wife gave birth to ababy boy yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (T.Sun Feb. 18/97) in thearticle titled Oh Baby, Jacko to be a dad soon. What makes this article moreominous than all other birth other than that it is entertaining to the starcrazed general public? Hundreds Get To Eye Claudi a the so called superbabe asshe breezes her way into The Bays downtown Yonge St. fund(T. Sun Feb. 25/97).Up to five hundred people waited for up to two hours for a glimpse of thefamed beauty and to hear her speak(T. Sun Feb. 25/97). Imagine how many lookedin the Sun for the article. The article choices of the Sun have a directaffiliation to the need for it as a business to p... ...articleHospitals Blood Stock Almost Exhausted contains human race interest through itsability to show the community working together Although other hospital businessbanks were also short of blood, the Toronto Hospital and St. Michaels Hospitalagreed to send blood to Sunnybrook by taxi if needed (T. Star April 2/97). Theaspect of community togetherness provokes human interest and complies with theStars general theme of family. The Globe and Mail article Toronto DesperateFor Blood roused human interest thorough community togetherness in case the unhurried required more blood than was on hand the hospital contacted the RedCross society and two other hospitals to ensure a continued supply." Thisarticles object lesson of human interest is moderated through the exclusion ofthe agreement of the two hospitals to provide more blood even though they werelow. Instead the article stuck strictly to the facts that the Globes readers afford for.Realistically, the sale of newspapers is the primary objective of thejournalist illustrated through their use of techniques. Journalistic content andtechniques vary according to the audience towards which the newspaper directsits attention.