Exercise 3

How is the news different from entertainment?
Most people would answer that news is real but entertainment is fiction. ___(1)___
The news does not show us all the events of the day, ___(2)___
The creation of news stories is subject to specific constraints, much like the creation of works of fiction. There are many constraints, but three of the most important ones are: commercialism, story formulas, and sources. Newspapers, radio, and TV stations are businesses, ___(3)___
The amount of time that the average TV station spends on news broadcasts has grown steadily over the last fifty years - largely because news is relatively cheap to produce, yet sells plenty of advertising. ___(4)___
For example, during one week in 1996 when the American CBS network was airing a movie about the sinking of the Titanic, CBS news ran nine stories about that event ___(5)___.