13 November

I remember studying news as a genre. It’s designed to look like ‘what happened today’. But of course it isn’t that at all, it’s a tiny selection of events pitched a certain way, to create certain feelings in viewers. All of it is arbitrary - why for example have sport in every news bulletin? And weather? Why not the arts? Or science and technology, or fishing? I do think that once you see news as just a type of story, the world suddenly seems much less like it’s going to the dogs. We need to stop seeing news as ‘how the world is’. It’s a story, that’s all - not fake, just one story, out of millions.