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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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