Meaningless Radio Words; #2. "News"

While I'm at it: Since the days of the legendary radio news guy Rip Reed, radio stations have mouthed what wire services printed out on that endless paper or monitor screens. More-serious radio news departments relied on police-fire scanners and phone "beat checks" to police departments. They actually wrote things on typewriters before running to the studios carrying paper and carts containing phone recordings they straightfacedly called "actualities." The truth is, like "local," "news" in radio never meant anything like what it still means at NEWSpapers. I'm suggesting that U.S steel-tower radio stations hire people for their local journalism chops, as opposed to only their voices, "talent," and "believeability" (another great radio word, which does not mean "real"). Local News. Now, there's a concept. We don't have a single radio station in the U.S.A. on this format.