There’s new news and there’s old news. The definition says that new news comes from digital and social media with instant, interactive and personalized updates. Old news comes from legacy media like TV and print and provides in-depth, curated, and highly credible reporting, though it operates on a slower, one-way and more repetitive model.
I would suggest that definition is an “old definition.” I bet we could find old and new definitions these days.
It is that so many things that show up in news feeds as new news turn out to be old news - stories with dates from a few years ago that are resurfaced with new headlines to make them seem like current news. This is probably to address that other definition of old news - information that is already known and no longer interesting, and becoming more prevalent.
It could also be that there is old news that gets better with age. I thought this might have to do with the headlines of the stories. I came upon these Canadian headlines and didn’t care how new or old they are. These seemed humorously Canadian:
“Goat ‘arrested’ after walking into Saskatchewan Tim Hortons, refusing to leave: ‘He was very unhappy’”
“Saskatchewan RCMP head to ‘frosh’ party, bring chips, salsa”
“Three men sentenced for $18-million Quebec maple syrup heist”
“The most Canadian car thief ever returns stolen vehicle with full tank of gas”
“Have a good day: B.C. man politely asks family of bears to leave his yard”
“Snow go: Canadian winter festival cancelled because of snow”
“Sask. ranchers stunned as beaver herds 150 cattle”
“Canadians slowly but surely dropping the famous ‘eh’ from their speech, linguist says”
“Hockey game breaks out after massive pileup on Quebec highway”
The Robins and the Red-Winged Blackbirds are back. I wonder who these bird houses are for with their tiny little holes. Could wrens fit in? We have some very noisy wrens who have started their spring songs.
