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This analysis demonstrates that news is a form of unexpected information, indicating its essence lies in function, not genre.
The aim of the author is to demonstrate that “news” is not a genre similar to notice, dispatch, signal etc., but rather a new information, which is unexpected, uncommon. It is the information and not the form which is the essence of news. News is a function not a genre.
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