FACT: News and opinion are not antonyms, in fact the only antonym of news is the word "history".
CONJECTURE: By the above fact it appears that your thoughts that news only deals with fact, is in fact, an opinion. One I happen to agree with, I think the uneducated such as myself before researching this, generally think of news as fact and thus should be to avoid misinformation, but its an opinion none the less. However, if it were a logical fact that news is NOT opinion wouldn't they be antonyms?
FACT: The etymology of News is actually just a plural of the word new, so in essence it simply means new things.
FACT: A report has etymology in the 1660s meaning "formal statement of results of an investigation" this changed from its meaning in the 1400s which, ironically, "an account brought by one person to another, rumor."
FACT: News still is synonymous with rumor, however it is also synonymous with report at the same time. http://thesaurus.com/browse/news.
OPINION based on these facts: News is a broad word which encompasses both rumor and reports, however people who dislike misinformation tend to latch 'their' definition of news to include only the subset of news which are reports while rejecting the subset of news that is rumor.
OPINION based upon these facts: I think many people are confusing the word "news" with the word "report" which are usually used together these days as "News Report" , so closely related that I feel the etymology of the word news is changing to simply mean 'a report'. Words change meaning all the time, but as it currently stands news does not mean report, though it can. But it seems that the more I look up these words, the more I notice the lack of the word "FACT" anywhere.
I think it'd be a good step though, to signify reports versus editorials, however nowhere in this website did I see the words that said it's editorial free. That is a fact.
On the other hand, slashdot was a nice goal for a site... in the late 90s. Digg changed the whole scheme as it was a slashdot where users voted on content that was separated into subgroups. However furryne.ws got that already. I do think Flayrah could be more then just a slashdot, and it's a learning process.
Despite your obsessive compulsive for the facts, the fact that "news" isn't always factual isn't a new problem, and probably won't be one that will ever be extinguished. The term "Yellow Journalism" was coined in the late 1800s, over the news' behavior in reporting the Spanish-American War.
Surely though, a war is a better use of time to complain about journalism facts, then whether or not some avatars turned into fuzz balls on a particular day.
Ok, here are some facts:
FACT: News and opinion are not antonyms, in fact the only antonym of news is the word "history".
CONJECTURE: By the above fact it appears that your thoughts that news only deals with fact, is in fact, an opinion. One I happen to agree with, I think the uneducated such as myself before researching this, generally think of news as fact and thus should be to avoid misinformation, but its an opinion none the less. However, if it were a logical fact that news is NOT opinion wouldn't they be antonyms?
FACT: The etymology of News is actually just a plural of the word new, so in essence it simply means new things.
FACT: A report has etymology in the 1660s meaning "formal statement of results of an investigation" this changed from its meaning in the 1400s which, ironically, "an account brought by one person to another, rumor."
FACT: News still is synonymous with rumor, however it is also synonymous with report at the same time. http://thesaurus.com/browse/news.
OPINION based on these facts: News is a broad word which encompasses both rumor and reports, however people who dislike misinformation tend to latch 'their' definition of news to include only the subset of news which are reports while rejecting the subset of news that is rumor.
OPINION based upon these facts: I think many people are confusing the word "news" with the word "report" which are usually used together these days as "News Report" , so closely related that I feel the etymology of the word news is changing to simply mean 'a report'. Words change meaning all the time, but as it currently stands news does not mean report, though it can. But it seems that the more I look up these words, the more I notice the lack of the word "FACT" anywhere.
I think it'd be a good step though, to signify reports versus editorials, however nowhere in this website did I see the words that said it's editorial free. That is a fact.
On the other hand, slashdot was a nice goal for a site... in the late 90s. Digg changed the whole scheme as it was a slashdot where users voted on content that was separated into subgroups. However furryne.ws got that already. I do think Flayrah could be more then just a slashdot, and it's a learning process.
Despite your obsessive compulsive for the facts, the fact that "news" isn't always factual isn't a new problem, and probably won't be one that will ever be extinguished. The term "Yellow Journalism" was coined in the late 1800s, over the news' behavior in reporting the Spanish-American War.
Surely though, a war is a better use of time to complain about journalism facts, then whether or not some avatars turned into fuzz balls on a particular day.