In the heart of the great Himalayas is a beautiful valley which has been described by poets and emperors as paradise. Over the centuries, this verdant veil has seen the blossoming of many exquisite flowers of the philosophy of man. With the bountiful beauty of nature constantly around them, the people of Kashmir have always been filled by thoughts of the divinity of creation. In the Hindu imagination, this most beautiful valley is said to be the abode of gods. Amid these deeply forested hills, Lord Shiva is said to have narrated to His consort, Parvati, the sacred Amarkatha, the secret of immortality. In the ancient historical record of Kashmir's history, the Rajatangani, the writer Kalhan speaks of Kashmir's streams and cascades, the flower-strewn meadows, the soft cloud-draped sky, the far vistas of snow on the mountains, the dawn and sunset skies that hold all the roses and gold in an artist's palette. The enchanting beauty of the valley of Kashmir inspired Emperor Jahangir to write in his memoirs, the red rose, the violet and the narcissus, the grow of themselves. Truly this is the paradise of which priests have prophesied and poets have sung, agar fir dos par sami ast, hami ast, hami ast, hami ast. If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here. In ancient times Kashmir was known as Shardapeet, the seat of the goddess of learning. The Buddha himself is reported to have said that this beautiful valley would be the best place for meditation and prayer. Buddhism came to Kashmir soon after the life of the Buddha. The climate of free thinking and philosophical discussion initiated by Buddhism continued over the ages in this land of Sharda or Saraswati. Buddhist sages and saints continued to visit the blessed valley in centuries to come to exchange views with scholars here. Emperor Shok was the first great royal patron of Buddhism in Kashmir. In the third century BC he created the first capital of Kashmir where Srinagar is at present. He built hundreds of Chettias and Vihars and settled 5,000 Buddhist monks in the valley. With the Kushans came the golden age of Buddhism in Kashmir. Chettias, Vihars and stupas were built all across the valley. Most importantly the great Kushan ruler Kanishk held the fourth Buddhist council at Harwan near Srinagar in the first century. Learned monks and scholars converged here and sat here for 6 months to discuss and interpret sacred Buddhist texts. This was one of the greatest meetings of Buddhist intellectuals the world had seen. The fourth council was regarded as an epoch-making event in the history of Buddhism as it was here that Sanskrit became the vehicle of Buddhist scriptures. Many commentaries were composed at the council. These were also inscribed on copper plates and enshrined deep in the heart of a great stupa. With the fourth Buddhist council Mahayana Buddhism came into prominence for the first time. The earlier Hinayana form of Buddhism revered only symbols representing the Buddha and focused on the concept of the ascetic who renounced all worldly attainments. The Mahayana form of Buddhism which now became dominant, worshipped images of the Buddha and believed in benevolent Bodhisattvas who helped men on their path to salvation. The many attributes of the Buddha were personified in a pantheon of deities for men to meditate upon. The new form of Buddhism was filled with the joyous beauty of life and of nature which is seen everywhere in the valley. This marked the beginning of a great spread of the Buddhist faith northwards to the other countries of Asia. Numerous Buddhist monasteries were constructed across the vast expanses of Central Asia and China from where the faith spread also to Korea and Japan. The people of these countries had a keen desire to learn the philosophy of Buddhism and they made her Julian efforts to translate Buddhist scriptures into the Chinese and Japanese languages. The names of great scholars and translators illuminate the passages of the Buddhist history of China. The most outstanding of these was Kumarjeev of the 4th century. He was the son of a Kashmiri Pandit, Kumarayan and Princess Jeeva of Kucha. At the age of 9, his mother brought him to Kashmir where he studied Buddhism for many years. On his return to Kucha, he translated more than 40 important Buddhist texts including the Lotus Sutra into Chinese. These are among the major texts of Buddhism in China and Japan till today. His grasp of the Sanskrit language and the Chinese are so perfect that his translation is so erudite and so beautiful and even today there are so many other translations later on but the Chinese monk, if you ask them which translation do you like they would tell you as Kumarjeev and his translation I think I find very enchanting. The importance of Kumarjeev was so much that the Chinese took him away when they captured Kucha and till today there are monuments and statues of him built in China. The glorious Buddhist history of Kashmir is also recorded by a flow of Chinese pilgrims who visited the valley. Hewant Sang came to Kashmir in the year 631. He spent two years in Srinagar and studied Buddhist scriptures under a renowned Kashmiri teacher. Hewant Sang mentions numerous Buddhist institutions with more than 5,000 monks in the valley. In the meantime, the kings of the Tibetan plateau turned with a great eagerness and zeal to Kashmir to imbibe the sacred faith of Buddhism. The Sanskrit script of Sharda of Kashmir was taken to Tibet to form the basis of the first Tibetan script. In the 8th century, Shantarakshet from Kashmir laid the foundations of a monastic order in Tibet. He also appealed to the eminent sage Padmasambhav to visit Tibet and to help enlighten the people about the new faith. Padmasambhav who was teaching in Kashmir brought with him the chum, the monastic dance of the Lamas. This dance purifies the land and drives away all evil spirits. It also celebrates the victory of good over evil, man's conquest over his ego which binds him to negative and worldly desires. Till today Padmasambhav is the most revered teacher for all Buddhists in the Tibetan plateau and across the Himalayas. At the turn of the millennium, King Yeshe O of Tibet turned once again to Kashmir to revive the Buddhist faith. He sent 21 scholars to Kashmir over the high passes of the Himalayas. Out of these 21, 19 young men perished on the treacherous route. However, two of them survived and one named Rinchen Zangpo became famous as Loth Sava, the great translator of the Buddhist scriptures into Tibetan. King Yeshe O also invited 32 artists from Kashmir to construct and paint 108 monasteries which he built across the Trans-Himalayas. These monasteries became the backbone of Tibetan Buddhism for all time to come. The only examples of Kashmiri painting of the ancient period which survived to this day are found on the walls of these monasteries. These paintings depict the glorious culture of Kashmir. At the time when it was a busy crossroads of the world, Kashmir was then on an artery of the Silk Route which connected the lands of China and Central Asia with those of Europe. It was here in these busy market places that the Chinese rubbed shoulders with the Arabs, Greeks, Maharashtrians and Keralites. The rich fusion of arts and philosophy as well as lifestyles which took place here laid deep and strong foundations for Kashmir's culture which is one of the most refined and cosmopolitan in the world. In architecture Kashmir assimilated both the mainstream Indian concepts as well as those that came from Greece and Central Asia. This remarkable and beautiful fusion which took place here is seen in the impressive remains of the Martand Sun Temple and in other temple sites. Some of the grandest temples of India of the early period were made in Kashmir. Tiles from Harvan where the 4th Buddhist Council was held in the 1st century are the earliest surviving art which shows the beautiful confluence of cultures which took place in Kashmir. The three tiered Sumsteic temples which stand in Ladakh till today are an exquisite reminder of the architecture of Kashmir of the ancient period. The form of Buddhism which developed and spread from here was originally created in the great Nalanda and Vikramshila universities of Eastern India. This was the Vajrayan form of Buddhism or the vehicle of the Thunderbolt whose logic was supposed to be as clear and indestructible as the Thunderbolt. This form of Buddhism developed to great heights with interactions with Kashmir-shevism. From here it spread far and wide to Tibet, China, Korea and Japan where it is practiced till today. A great renaissance swept the length and breadth of Kashmir from 9th century onwards to 14th century. It was a philosophical renaissance, a philosophical revolution known as Kashmir-shevism. Kashmir-shevism presents the vision of the ultimate reality as indivisible consciousness. Indivisible and all-inclusive consciousness from which nothing is excluded, nothing stands outside it. Everything, every element has a place in the totality of the whole and everything is related to everything else. Sarvam Sarvatmakam as the tantric adage goes. It tried to integrate, it tried to synthesis the various opposing philosophies that existed at that time and it tried to give a logical explanation to things. Shiva or the ultimate reality is the only essence and reality of the world. There is nothing else but Shiva. So there is no subject and object. There is only Shiva and we are also Shiva. The dual perception of reality is the deceptive veil of the material world. Knowledge is that expansion of the self which comes from losing one's identity in the supreme beauty of Shiva's manifestation. For the adherence of Kashmir-shevism, liberation comes about through intense meditation on the Lord and recognition of the identical nature of the individual's soul and the Lord. Just as poetry or a piece of art lies in the imagination of the artist of the poet. The entire world of the entire phenomena lies within Shiva. The world is a form of self, his self-expression. It is his poetry. He is expressing himself in poetry. Shiva himself is transcendental beyond everything. But in his immanent form, in the form of the world, it is Shakti. It is his cosmic energy that manifests in every blade of grass that grows, every consciousness that stirs. Indian thinkers have always seen the world around as a reflection of the beauty of God. It has been believed that the feeling of ecstasy upon seeing the beauty of nature or a truly fine work of art is akin to Brahmanand or the final bliss of enlightenment itself. In that moment of bliss, we sense our oneness with the whole of creation and the great beauty of the Lord which is reflected in every aspect of the world. It is this moment of realization, this moment of the vision of eternal beauty which is to be seen in every leaf, in every ripple of water, in every flower and every tree which the philosophy of aesthetics aims at awakening within us. This philosophy has been developed to its highest in Kashmir. Great Kashmiri philosophers such as Abhinav Gupta have written detailed and extensive commentaries on the subject. Every moment of life according to Kashmiri Shaiva masters was an aesthetic experience, an aesthetic moment. Abhinav Gupta even believed that liberation is also an aesthetic experience. The valley of Kashmir has long been a paradise, not only of the verdant beauty of nature but also of the development of some of the finest and gentlest thoughts of mankind. The philosophers of this valley have had a joyous belief in the manifestation of the beauty of God in the world that we see around us. It is a deep belief that every aspect of creation is a part of the supreme consciousness. This philosophy of love and the recognition of divine beauty were the essence of the Buddhist and Hindu philosophies of the early period in Kashmir. Later Islam in the valley inherited these traditions of love and compassion and Kashmir developed a rich Sufi culture which continued the tradition of a deeply personal love of God. Amid its majestic mountains, Kashmir has been a marvellous crucible. It has seen the confluence of people from distant lands who have brought their diverse cultures. Different religions and influences of art and lifestyle have existed together at this ancient crossroads of the world. The people of Kashmir have taken the best and finest of what the world has to offer. Here was created a culture of understanding and love which has continued over the ages and is known as Kashmiryat. It is fascinating to visualize Kashmir in ancient times. Amid some of the greatest mountains of the world, this valley lay at the crossroads of culture. A great crucible where people and ideas came from some of the most developed civilizations of Asia and of Europe. Chinese, Arabs, Greeks, Maharashtrians and Keralites met in the marketplaces of Kashmir. Besides the exchange of goods from different lands, this resulted in a rich fusion of cultures and ideas of art and philosophy. Thus were laid the deep foundations of one of the most refined and cosmopolitan cultures of the world. If the beauty of the natural world reminds us of the creator, then surely one understands why so many religious philosophies have been developed here in Kashmir. For here is the magical splendor of nature's wealth. Here in Kashmir, visions of the Lord's glory are constantly in front of us. It is only natural that the unique form of Kashmiri Shaivism developed here. In this philosophy, there is a great emphasis on the worship of Shakti. Who is the manifestation in this world of the ideal that is Shiv? She is seen constantly in the beauty and grandeur of the great mountains. In crystal clear streams of water and in the deep beauty of the still lakes of Kashmir, it is also in these verdant surroundings that the noble philosophy of the Buddha was given a new form. The compassionate deities and bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism were embraced by the thinkers of Kashmir and a joyous and glorious dimension was added to the practice of Buddhism. The great Kashmiri saint and poetess Laldead, who deeply influenced Kashmiri thought for all time to come, spoke of the concept of the divine manifestation of God and the rapturous relationship of the soul with Him. Laldead was born in the 14th century at Pandarethan near Srinagar. By then the influence of Islamic Sufism, which also believed in a direct and personal love of God, had pervaded the valley. Laldead is not only a poet in whose verses or walks we hear the first heartbeats of Kashmiri poetry. She is also the greatest cultural icon of Kashmiri society. That is why every Kashmiri remembers her to this day and her verses are on the lips of everyone in Kashmir. In Laldead's verses, we find the essence of Kashmir's Shaivism distilled, which stresses on the essential oneness of consciousness, on the essential oneness of being or the unity of existence. And her greatness lies in the fusion of the poet and the saint. It is the fusion of the poet and the saint that makes her great. In her poems we see the poet's vision of spirituality and the saint's vision of poetry. Laldead brought a message of all embracing love and service. She sang, Shiv lives everywhere. Do not divide Hindu from Muslim. She spoke of the recognition of one's true self as a part of the whole of creation. Hers was a synthesis of mystical Shaivism and Islamic Sufism, which went straight to the hearts of the masses. She became Lalda Arifa for the Muslims and Lallishwari for the Hindus. Lalda became the moving spirit of the people. She was loved by both Hindus and Muslims as their mother. She is commonly known today throughout the valley by the beloved name of Laldead, Mother Lalda. And above all it was she who shaped the sense of values and ideals that forms the bedrock of Kashmiri ethos. The core of religion, according to Laldead, lies in the equality of men and women, human brotherhood and the realization of the unity between God and man. Lalda acknowledged the truth of all religions, which would help one attain the ultimate goal of supreme happiness. The sayings of Lalda embraced the beliefs of both the Hindu and Buddhist past of Kashmir and Islam, which was by then being taught by Shah Hamadan in the valley. Lalda's compositions or vaks are steeped in a loving humanism and remain the mainstay of the cosmopolitan culture of Kashmir. Laldead's philosophy of love was carried forward in the valley by Sheikh Nuruddin, also known as Namdrishi. He had been baptised by Lalda and he too lived in the hearts and minds of both Hindus and Muslims. In fact, he is known as the patron saint of Kashmir. Love for Nuruddin was not only a mystical union with God, but an active and sympathetic attitude towards all living creatures. He advocated vegetarianism in his teaching of the brotherhood of man and the equality of all the creatures of God. He continued the Islamic ethics contained in the Quran. He founded the Order of the Rishis, who became a powerful influence in the valley for many centuries to come. In his memoirs, Jahangir wrote about the Rishis. They restrain the tongue of desire and the foot of seeking. They eat no flesh and always plant fruit bearing trees and fields so that men may benefit from them. In every part of Kashmir, there have been well-known Rishis whose abodes have become places of worship, both for Hindus and Muslims alike. It is this mixing, this fusion which lies at the heart of the great Indian project of creating a multicultural society, a multi-religious society. I think these traditions exist in many parts of the country. There is a great deal more that I believe we can learn from the Kashmir experience, from the historical experience of Kashmir, which I think is pluralist, which is composite and which represents all that is best in our multicultural society. Sheikh Nuruddin's tomb, the Ziyarat of Charade Sharif, is one of the most important places of pilgrimage for both Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir till today. One of the paul bearers at Sheikh Nuruddin's funeral was Sultan Zain Ul Abidin, whose name stands out as the most beloved ruler in Kashmir's history. He is known as Badshah, the great king, and his life and rule were entirely imbued with the humane and cosmopolitan spirit of Kashmiriyat. He fostered a culture of synthesis and understanding. He took a personal interest in the translation of Sanskrit and Persian classics. Under him, a common poetry sprang up in the Kashmiri language, which was sung by both Hindus and Muslims. In this culture of unity and the philosophy of saints such as Sheikh Nuruddin, Sufism flourished. The most prominent of Sufi saints who came to Kashmir was Shah Hamadan of Persia. Hamadan was a follower of Islam but had faith in all religions. In Kashmir, Shah Hamadan came into contact with two of the most famous saints of the valley, Lalded and Sheikh Nuruddin. The thoughts of the Sufi mystic from Persia and those of the Kashmiri saints mingled so completely that the two cannot be differentiated. Islam in Kashmir owes its success to Shah Hamadan's remarkable role and his acceptance of local traditions. He continued the practice of singing the Orad Fateh, allowed in mosques. The remarkable feature of Islam in Kashmir is the fusion that has taken place in Kashmiri society at several different levels between the Islamic, the Buddhist and the Shaivite or Hindu traditions. Sufism believes in the imminence of God in all beings. It also believes that God is omnipotent and all-pervading. He is the essence of every human soul. Again, like Shaivism, it believes that the universe is a manifestation of God himself. The Kashmiri people related deeply to this concept of oneness and embraced this philosophy with open arms. Sufi is amazed, contrary again to popular belief, very much an indispensable element of Islam. But the Sufi emphasis is not on basically using intermediaries, in this case the ulama, or the more formal ways of associating oneself or identifying oneself with the ultimate reality, that is God, but establishing direct communion with the ultimate reality. It is this desire to seek communion which leads to what is called the mystical ways or the Sufi ways. They have devised different forms, samah or singing, singing of qawalis is one such way of seeking communion with the reality. A very important tradition in one form of Sufism is of course this notion that God has many attributes and that this society, this world, its people are essentially a manifestation of those attributes. And if they are the manifestations of the attributes of the ultimate reality, then there is no need to make any distinction between human beings. So a Hindu or a Muslim, a Christian or a Buddhist, they are all essentially manifestations of the attributes of the ultimate reality. People from all parts of the world, in all times, who have come to Kashmir, have responded most eloquently to its natural beauty. Indeed, in the timelessness of Kashmir's majestic landscapes, one's thoughts always turn to the divine. In bhakti, the self and all of creation are seen to be aspects of the creator. The soul is seen as constantly yearning to be one with the Lord. The bhakti poet writes, The glory of my Lord is everywhere that I see. I perceived His glory and found that I had become a part of it. In Islamic Sufism too, the believer sought a direct communion with God. He chose the path of absolute surrender and complete love of the Almighty. The whole of Sufism rests on the belief that when the individual self is lost, the universal self is found. Ecstasy is the means by which the soul can directly communicate and become united with God. The Kashmiri Sufi poets talk of the universal essence of love which filters through their poems. The pain of separation from the universal soul finds its poignant expression in Kashmiri Sufi poetry. The manifestation of God or His expression, His zahoor as they called, is this universe. His beauty is manifested in every particle of the universe. When the feeling of oneness comes into the mind of the poet or the aspirant, he feels ecstasy, he dances in ecstasy, in joy and that's called hal or vajda. That's the last stage, that's called fana or baka. Then nothing remains, then the individual soul and the universal soul become one just as in Shaivism. Sufis say that Nur or the beauty of God is reflected in the entire universe. They long to find that beauty and be one with it. In the words of a Sufi poet, I tried to find Him everywhere. And then I found that He has my name, that my name and His name are the same. The Sufis were held in highest team among the masses who followed their simple teachings with eagerness and understanding. Sufi saints stressed upon the dignity of man. For they thought that every individual should reach the highest goal of human life by his own effort. They rejected the special claim of sanctity of priests, temples, rites and rituals. The Sufis isolate themselves from the turmoil of everyday life. But they do not isolate themselves from people. They built khankhas where people could come, rest and listen to their discourse. Essentially khankhas exist today around a shrine and basically people come, devotees come to pay their homage to the Sufi in several different ways. The khankhas were places where members of different religious communities could congregate and interact. So that one of the reasons why so many Hindus and Buddhists were eventually converted to Islam was perhaps not through the use of sword or forcible conversion but through the examples that were set by the Sufi saints. Their messages which were disseminated through the established khankhas appealed to large sections of society. Aurangzeb's son Darashiko built a university of Sufism called Parimehal in Srinagar. What a message of human brotherhood and love would have emanated from the synthesis of Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu philosophies in Kashmir. To whichever religion the Kashmiri belonged, through the centuries it has been the yearning of his soul to lose himself in divine contemplation. Kashmir is a many splendid land which has always attracted sages and seers, emperors and scholars, poets and artists. Here in this great crucible of cultures, they have all contributed to create one of the most cosmopolitan places in the world. In this valley, religions have flourished and philosophies have been born, truly an enchanted land which has shown the way to the brotherhood of man. The development of civilization and culture leads to peace and harmony. The winds of other lands blow freely and people take from each other the best ideas and thoughts of different cultures. It is thus that the rich bouquet of the cultures of Kashmir developed and is today known as Kashmiriyat.


Dear learners, I am Trisha Dora-Burwa from the Bhoopan Hazarika School of Mass Communication, Krishnakanta Hanik Street Open University and I would like to once again welcome you all to another discussion on a different area of mass communication journalism, that is news values. This particular topic is covered under Unit 7 from the second semester paper, journalism. Now, moving on, what exactly are news values? News values are basically different characteristics of news. To put it very simply, they are different characteristics and each every news has some kind of values in them or in fact they are actually the qualities by which events qualify as news. And news values, they actually determine how much of prominence a particular news story is given by media outlet and the attention it is given by the audience. And let us try to focus on the different characteristics. The first and the most important characteristic of news is timeliness. Now, for the term itself, you can make out, you know, as far as timeliness is concerned, usually most of the news stories that you see in different media outlets, be it in print media, be it in electronic media, be it in different online media, it has to be new, recent or on time. Usually you hardly will find old news that have been broadcast or that have been printed in different media outlets, except in certain exceptional cases. And timeliness, we can define it by the publication cycle of different news medium in which the information will appear. So, the concept of timeliness is different for different newspapers or for different periodicity of the news magazine or newspaper or a broadcast media is concerned. Now, for a weekly news magazine, the events that has happened during the previous week are timely, because that is a weekly news magazine that magazine comes on only once a week. So, when it comes on once a week, only they will cover those news stories or those events that has happened only in the previous week itself, right? That is a, as far as a weekly news magazine is concerned, this is how the timeliness concept is defined here. But for daily newspaper, the events that has happened during the first 24 hours during the last edition of the paper are said to be timely. So, the concept of timeliness is different in case of a daily newspaper because they try to cover those news stories as I might have taken place during the last 24 hours. And as far as broadcast media is concerned, events that has happened during the past few hours up to the last half hour are actually timely, okay? So, maybe for the past, you know, for instance, there is a news program which is going to take place at 7 o'clock in the evening. So, they'll try to take up those news stories, maybe for the last, you know, three, four hours ago, that might have happened. They'll try to cover those news stories along with that. Up to the last half hour, they are said to be timely. Okay, it's not that completely they try to broadcast news that are like, you know, that have taken place almost 24 hours back. It's not that, because broadcast media is very fast, unlike, you know, daily newspaper. The broadcast is, it's kind of digital media, right? So, every passing time and every moment of every second news are being coming up. So, they keep on updating news every second, every minute. So, for broadcast media, that is what the timely-less concept is all about. Another important characteristic, another important news value that we can talk about is importance. Significant events that hold importance for the masses must be considered as news. Any important event, you know, it may be like, you know, for instance, someone has presented a budget in the parliament, or maybe, you know, there's a dignitary coming from after the country is addressing the nation, or maybe there's some kind of government project that needs to be focused in the mainstream media. So, such kind of important, such kind of news if they are being broadcast, if they are being, you know, focused more, then of course they will generate more interest from the readers itself, you know. So, this is another important quality, another important news value, because the more important news you focus on, the better it is for the particular news organization, the better it is for the society as a whole. Another important characteristic on the important news values that we talk about is conflicts. You know, we live in a society, so we are very much used to seeing different kinds of conflicts taking place in society. When a society comprises multiple ideologies, there are multiple groups, multiple organs, there are innumerable ethnic communities, there are multiple languages and so on and so forth, then definitely conflicts are bound to take place, isn't it? We can't avoid them, we can't stay away from them.  Okay. So, conflicts are important for more news values. Then another important characteristic of news value or another important news value, which we have is proximity. Now, the, you know, when the more news you focus, that is, that might have taken place, some in-neighbour locality. For instance, the people living in Assam. Okay. So, they'll be more used, so they'll get more excited.  So, if those incidents have been focused, because those are focused, and those incidents, how those news have taken place within the same proximity, within the same, you know, within the same limited aerial distance where the particular news has taken place. So, when such kind of news events have been focused, then, you know, it tries to, it has an immediate effect on the people's minds. People are drawn towards such kind of news stories, because as relevance or some, when focus is given local news, it's very much interesting for the masses, irrespective of whether they, whichever place they are, looks staying at the moment. Another important character, another important news value is prominence. Now, prominent person, prominent events and prominent places always make news.  When you try to focus on events, like showing the, highlighting that someone has, some prominent person has come to, you know, where something, so and so forth, or maybe some important event has taken place at the government level. So, those are news of prominence. And they always, such kind of prominent news stories always makes news. Another important news value is the impact or consequence. Look, the kind of impact that event is going to have on the minds of the people is also another characteristic of news. And even that actually causes or is capable of causing a great sequence of events affecting many persons, obviously, in news voting. Okay, suppose some kind of event is taking place and that event is bound to create some kind of impact in the society, or there is bound to have some kind of consequence in the society, you know. And that has far reaching, you know, maybe that has far reaching impact on the lives of the people, and also that has far reaching consequences of, you know, generating a kind of debate, a kind of discussion in the society. So, something, a news having some kind of impact or consequence is said to be very always make good news. Then we have another important news value, which is progress. Information relating to a country's development and prosperity always makes news. It's very obvious. You know, when you talk about something, some developmental news, when you talk about something which is related to the advancement of the society, when there is a focus on something which might directly, indirectly lead to, you know, a kind of healthy atmosphere and creating a healthy atmosphere in society, you know. So, such kind of information actually makes news, because every society has problems and issues that needs to be highlighted by the media, and such information is always news voting. Then we come to disaster. Disaster is on the important news value. Any kind of disaster makes news, okay. Now, if you see usually, you know, suppose a massive earthquake has taken place in some part of the country, or maybe in some part of the world. So, of course, that particular news story will gather the most eyeballs than any other news stories, right. So, that news stories will be focused on the front page of the newspaper, as well as it will be a front page headline of any broadcast media organization. So, such incidents occur and, you know, it kind of stirs the emotions of the larger segments of the society. Because, you know, when we try to cover the disaster-related news stories, it has a kind of deep impact on the minds of the people, because people are able to relate to the particular disaster. People are able to identify how that particular incident has taken place, what did take place, and who were involved in that particular incident. So, there is a kind of sentiment involved. There is a kind of emotion involved in that particular news story. Okay. Then we have another important characteristic of a news story. In other words, we get important news value. It is human interest. So, usually, when we talk about human interest, this aspect is mostly covered in soft news stories. Because, of course, there are a plethora of news that has been given that has been thrown to us. We have hard news stories, soft news stories. We have, from soft news stories, we can, like, subdivide into, you know, anchor news stories. We have feature stories. Okay. Then, of course, with the editorial part. So, the different areas, different stories have been given to us. But not all stories can actually, you know, generate interest in the minds of the people. There has to be some kind of newsworthiness to it. There has to be some kind of, you know, value to it. And human interest is one of those values. And such stories, it arouses some emotions in the audience. Stories that are motivating, uplifting, or ironic. They may be bizarre also. They may be dramatic also. So, you know, such items that concern ordinary people who find themselves in circumstances with which the audience can actually identify with them. Another important news value which we can talk about is currency. Currency basically talks about the current event that has been taking place presently. It's all about current events. You know, current events will have the limelight rather than those news which might have taken place sometime back. Because, you know, we are always on the move as laymen or as common masses. So, we need those news stories. We need to kind of check up those news stories which might be of relevance to the present society. We don't want any such theories which might have taken place about like two, three months back, right? We only want those news stories which might have taken place maybe, you know, 24 hours back or maybe just at the most like one day ago. We don't want to interest in something which is very stale which is very old news. Okay, which is one something which is presently happening which might have some importance to society, which might have, you know, human interest angle to it or which might have some prominence to it and which might have some impact to that particular story. Then we have novelty which is another important news value. Now, novelty basically talks about, you know, something that's very new, something which is very unusual kind of story, okay? Something which is very unique in nature. So, those make up a good news stories. Okay, so for instance, like as example, I'm just citing here suppose there is an expedition going on just below the, you know, water level, below the sea in some part of the country.  So, that kind of news story falls on novelty because it tries to focus something which is very new which is very unique, something which has never taken place because usually when we go for excavation, when we go for, you know, digging out materials as part of anthropology. You know, usually we go to different places, we go to valleys, we go to hills but usually we don't go under water to check out for such kind of relics. So, when such kind of expedition comes to the forefront when such kind of news is being put in front of the general common public and that falls on the novelty. It falls on something which is very unique, something which is very new or which is very unusual. Okay, then let us understand usefulness. Usefulness is also another important quality of a good news story with some other important news values. So, a good news story should cater to those news stories which actually help the public in different ways, maybe directly or indirectly. Suppose someone is covering a news event which is related to some development purposes. So, a person who tries to understand the development, some, maybe some, you know, project is being undertaken by the government and they are trying to give incentives to the farmers for the particular project. So, maybe that project will be useful or helpful to the farmer in some way or the other. So, such kind of news stories are more interested because such kind of interest has a better impact on the minds of the individual because some way or the other such kind of news stories it might be useful in the long run because it might lead to the development of the society in the long run. One example I'm just citing here that maybe you might have noticed during some very bad weather conditions usually the government or the weather forecasters try to warn the fishermen from venturing out into the sea. They try to give out phone numbers to those fishermen which tries to broadcast the phone numbers or maybe try to publicize the phone numbers that if any such calamity takes place, please contact those numbers. So, such kind of information it's a kind of a small kind of news item but it is very useful in the sense that it may or may not in a way help the fishermen to save their own lives. So, such kind of information, such kind of news stories have more news values than those stories which do not focus on such kind of quality. Then last but not the least you have the most important news value there is an education value. Of course, news is not only something that has meant to entertain the masses it's not only meant to create a kind of sense of understanding of a particular problem or maybe to give a brief overview of what the events might have taken place in that but it's a certain education value to it. What exactly this value is all about? More specifically when you this is very much seen in case of the print media because you know print media different if you open a particular newspaper if you just see font through the different pages of newspaper you will see a plethora of information at your fingertips. You will find different columns about educational job opportunities you will find different editorials they have tried to focus on different news stories that might be of value to the society. So such kind of news stories in the long run are very much helpful or beneficial to the general public. So in today's discussion we have tried to talk about the different characteristics of news in other words the different news values and why a lot of emphasis is given news values. So the more emphasis is given news values the better attention it will be or it will receive from the audience. And for more information or for more references you can consult the different books that have been provided in the back of this particular in your concern self-study materials and also you can check out the different websites and different e-resources that are widely available on the internet. So today's discussion was all about news values. And with this I will end the discussion. Thank you so much.


The Tf&N Bull Bear Training Hour every training day live at 10 a.m. Eastern call now toll free at<PHONE_NUMBER> or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> the Tf&N Bull Bear Training Hour now Tom and Tommy O'Brien welcome folks appreciate your growl and problem with us out here we have the now industry is up 119 Azek up 44 S&P's up 14 and a half gold contract up a buck 90 trading at 1513 an ounce you get silver up 8 cents 18 dollars 14 cents an ounce light sweet crude up 78 cents 56 dollars 97 cents a barrel notes and bonds you get the 10 year down 10 ticks 129 22 the 30 year off 30 almost two almost one point at 159 21 and King dollar King dollar 125 ticks trade in 97 364 the year is at 111 the yet is at 108 and a half and the pound is at 129 to 1 US dollar we're kicking into November bottom line markets kicking into new highs why not man continuation of last week and this continuation you know of course you know you had our markets up on Friday bottom line going right over to Asia right over to Europe and right back to us right now so well bottom line is that yes you do definitely have a higher price there's divergence inside the S&P we had some volume inside the Nasdaq as well as the NDX 100 you had a contraction of volume news out here today under Armour would be right up about a 15 percent haircut from Friday's clothes and you know the thing it's amazing about the story actually is that this they disclosed it today but this has been going on for two years let's bring everybody up to speed with what you're talking about yeah so you got under Armour folks is accounting would it be an accounting probe right yes no definitely yeah talking about their accounting I mean there's nothing more important than the the numbers you're putting out to shareholders representing the facts so under Armour shares plunging after the company disclosed that federal federal officials have been probing its accounting practices for more than two years yeah I wonder what the legal requirements are for such a probe and reporting that to shareholders and why that is now made available today so right the athletic company also lowering its full year revenue forecast on Monday but raised some other projections after posting solid third quarter results and on Sunday spurred by a report by the Wall Street Journal the company said it's cooperating with investigations by the US SEC and the US Department of Justice and doesn't think it's done anything wrong and that's where I guess you so the company began responding in July of 17 more than two years ago to request for documents and information relating primarily to its accounting practices and related disclosures and the company firmly believes that its counting practices and disclosures were appropriate that's what they said in their statement so yeah you got investigators though from I mean when you had justice department in there on top of that seriously man yeah um and that's on the heels of the CEO and founder just right announcing that he was stepping down as well and so that's a little bit more speculation when you get into that so he is going after this swing lower 1515 you hit 1588 we'll see what this shakes out you know they should have some support of 1487 but when you have I do that whole thing about two years just I have a high time wrap my head around that because that's material you know yeah you know I wonder how they got away with not disclosing there'll be some more articles written above it I'm sure and then big Mac big speaking of CEOs that are out right that's uh he's out you get a consensual relationship consensual let's get that word out there bottom line is that uh no it's against the terms man of your employment you know I mean you can think what you want but when the terms are laid out ahead of time um and it's tough to feel bad for that situation I mean the CEO he's divorced he's single it's not even a as scandalous as things most of the time get when this um yeah but the board didn't want the CEO having relationships with people underneath him in a corporate structure like that you have to understand how that might be something that the board wants to keep intact for the benefit of the long-term growth of the company it comes out that he was having a consensual relationship with an employee and um the board said no there's no there's no if ends or buts around it man but yeah as you're looking at right now I mean the stock basically doubled yeah in his tenure and he's regarded as one of the best CEOs in the business and the market really not hitting it that bad all things considered right and you know the they got a new CEO in there who was kind of right under him right in McDonald's and I just said a little bit earlier when we were talking to you they got a deep bench they do and they have a deep experience bench hey the Patriots lost I saw last night man no more undefeated season um pretty remarkable that the one team left that's undefeated in the NFL San Francisco 49ers their quarterback Garoppolo who was our backup quarterback at one point if you remember that when Brady was out that one year I think that's when he got suspended Garoppolo filled in did a great job and Garoppolo earned himself a whopper of a contract to bring it back to fast food and so they are the only undefeated team left interesting week in the NFL for sure and the box man lost a close one to the Seahawks I believe in the last minute they were close man last minute as is usually the case pretty close but no cigar so oil let's take a look at this oil market we get Saudi Arabia they're gonna basically go out to market they're not going out to our market no no they're not then so you get oil up this morning 56 95 you get 271,000 contracts let's look at this thing yeah so you got a Ramco going to Riyadh right the uh index over there and you know just to keep it in context man they're originally going to pump out five percent of their equity in international markets they're now going to push out you know three percent in a foreign market which much less reporting standards um buyer beware extremely I wouldn't touch that thing and the the valuations I heard Goldman was saying they might be worth 2.2 2.3 trillion and then you had I forget what company might have been Bank of America but a legitimate big analyst saying maybe as low as 1.2 trillion I mean this sounds like a we work type you know it's like maybe it's worth 2.4 trillion and an analyst saying maybe it's worth 1.2 well then maybe it's worth 600 billion I don't know you know and why would you believe anything they push out when it's a state owned Saudi Arabia oil I mean this is the same country to bring things to a reality that just basically killed a U.S. resident yeah on you know right it's it's so buyer beware to say the least yeah and you know I'm really surprised that they're doing it this quick after we work because it's like okay if you know the the broker deal the community the banking community they make a percentage of what is going to get pushed out yes of course they're going to try to justify as high as they can get yes it's just amazing that to me that people would actually I agree so but we'll see I agree we'll see where it shakes out and at least some of the people might be protected because it's at least not on the NASDAQ not on the NYSE whereas most people won't be buying an equity that's trading over in the Riyadh exchange or whatnot but still man it's people are going to get hard if they buy it and they lose their money when you have a company like Goldman out there saying it's worth more than two trillion dollars and they're very biased by that recommendation yeah yeah so we'll see where this oil market wants to go this is kind of interesting actually I mean it's like you know are they pumping the little market up at the same time yeah um oh totally you know because you're over the swing point now I mean that's saying 58 well saying 58 19 is game that's the bottom of the downdraft out here that was uh well actually was an updraft the next day was the downdraft that was September 16th and that was the attack on those Saudi oil fields of course come on look at that gap come on that's right okay so that's going to be a big number there yes that's going to definitely be a big number oh man um and the dollar the dollar is basically still flat out here up 118 97357 that's looking for lower price down that was up 121 now is it's a 42 this piece of 14 and a half stay right there folks I'm gonna come right back if you're not currently using the TAS profile scanner when looking at setting up your trading opportunities then your arsenal is short a mighty weapon the TAS profile scanner is a standalone piece of software that instantly filters over 2500 global financial markets such as stocks ETFs commodity futures and forex headed by Steve doll TAS understands that in today's technological world the use of top flight software applications 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the uh remco uh ideal for a second we weren't even searching for the story but it's up there and it's interesting nonetheless right so they're pulling out all the stops to ensure success for the IPO after the crown prince finally decided to offer shares the kingdom cut taxes on the company for a third time revealed incentives for investors not to sell and it's considered boosting dividends further yet the Saudi government's already conceded the company probably isn't worth the 2 trillion valuation they've long advocated well somebody should tell Goldman Sachs that as they're out there pushing 2 plus trillion um and just to keep in mind again you know there's probably not a lot of investors I think who are plowing money into this even out there listening thankfully but when you have a state owned oil company right they can tweak everything in terms of they can shift so let's say the company's making boku bucks all right you invest in the company they're just crushing it well the state oil the state decides to just tax the oil company greater right and they take all the profits from the company and meanwhile it's still state-owned so it's just kind of shifting it from one bucket to the next and all they're doing is taking the money from investors in the company to push it back to the state meanwhile the state owns the company the state gets the taxes so they're lowering all the taxes ahead of the IPO but then they could just raise them back up the moment that the IPO is pushed out to the public and if you want if depending on how long a shot your memory is folks okay you gotta remember the next paragraph there our apco published a so-called intention to float on sunday the most dramatic change to the Saudi oil industry since the company was nationalized in the 1970s yep and that's when the kingdom took it over sure you know so the bottom line is that and here's where so Saudi Arabia is aiming for a valuation of 1.6 to 1.8 trillion Goldman Sachs told investors it's worth 1.6 to 2.3 what what is that you know I mean seriously Bank of America another top bank in the deal had a bottom range set at 1.2 BNP Paribas looked at 1.4 to the Bank of America is still another top bank in the deal and they're still saying 1.2 so be skeptical of even that you can see what's happening but they're employing 20 banks folks on its IPO so they're splitting they're trying to get every I'd say everybody in their pocket exactly so everybody's got a bias as they push this thing out yeah and they gotta figure out they gotta get to a price that they can just push so much out yeah if it's only 3% that's I don't think that's going to be hard for 20 banks to basically get right right you know but good luck in a year so exactly where's that price going to be right and there so they had a net income last year of 111 billion most profitable company of any corporation with an Apple Google and Exxon combined but the company's pledged to pay a minimum of 75 billion in dividends what happens in a downturn what happens if they decide to say you know what we're going to raise the taxes on that company to 85% on an annual basis because the state needs the money from the state-owned oil company and I'd question the aspect of them going public period I agree yeah because of the fact that okay if you're in a great business folks okay and you have plenty of money which they do yeah why are you basically saying okay you can have some money public right that's just yeah I'm not how it goes and we can see you know I mean there's there's alternates to oil right now and yeah alternative way yeah little by little I mean most of the time you go public because you don't have the capital required to grow the business at the rate that you can grow it at Saudi Arabia I said a private company this is from 1970 talking about 50 years seems like they've had their infrastructure built out they're just selling it off because they think it might be great to diversify well guess what you don't diversify if you have the best company out there right you keep your shred you pull out you pull a Bezos or Bill Gates and you hold one company one share for the life of your life and you never sell it if you if you can avoid it there's no bond so let's go take a look at the bond market so last week folks bonds caught a bid go top side we're pulling back today and guess what it's going to be on light volume I mean this is this is just amazing to me that you know you're at all time highs we're going into 2.2 million contracts we've only done 631 so you know this could definitely do 1.5 1.6 something like that but this is so unusual man that you're at all time highs bonds will not budge um you know can we pull up the 10 year yields yeah so I'll do this yeah there we go and you're going to see want to see a chart here we're sitting in 1.768 percent and yeah so what was that recent pink I was just curious that was kind of right as we were coming into the Fed 1.84 we uh we pulled back pretty hard to 1.76 that's on Thursday and then Friday it continued as the market just chugged higher to 1.67 and we're back at about 1.76 yeah and so what's also unusual that the Fed comes out says okay we're going to stay you know neutral for a bit yeah and the bond market besides no I'm going lower I'm going lower on yield higher on price I mean uh yeah lower on yield higher on price so we'll see that this whole thing shakes out but okay yeah good yeah well say that to lower it lower on yield higher on price right okay yeah and this is confusing but no that's not that's the Fed day right 0.85 we went down to 1.66 but because we only have the yield up there if we turn around and put the the bond up there you're going to see that as soon as the Fed came out the bottom line is that you think you go the opposite way well we went from 1.29 up to 1.3015 that's higher in price lower on yields oh that's what I meant yeah okay that's he lost it was the other way okay okay higher in price lower in yields right yeah so you know it's they're just still buying it and you know bottom line is that we'll see uh how the rest of this shakes out sure no I agree that's I do it's it's wild it sure is absolutely is how about Berkshire we had their earnings over the weekend he's got so much cash man I think he's up to 128 billion now with something free cash problem he's looking for better deals than he can find but the market okay with that up about two bucks it's almost a full percent yeah so let's see record quarter oh yeah now watch this this is pretty cool as to how this works to uh so craft craft has been a disaster for Berkshire Hathaway now that being said with what you have is this like almost a third of the jump in Berkshire is their quarter earnings came from finally recording its share of the package food giants 2019 results they had a gain of 467 million yeah and that's yeah they delayed reporting right the first half results amid regulatory probes right right and so what has happened folks in his investment is that because it's an equity he had a mock to market it this every earnings so he's been back a market is down forever I mean 2.7 billion in 2018 right yeah um and then if we bring this is say how much cash he has I think it's 120 billion it's it's a monster moment um and if we go to Kraft Heinz and look at it you're gonna see that this is still a mess but what does happen because he makes so much money on other things k hc can write it out and that it looks like I mean you know the bottom line is that he has rode this out if you look at this chart and you know chart 93 dollars you know down to 24 but on warrants gives me that's already written off yes right now any upside yeah comes into the upside yeah you know and like we're saying the market hates uncertainty so the fact that maybe that might be over those regulatory probes they couldn't even bring into their reporting now they have a number that they can put on it they're not as 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yeah uh taking away from it activation down 3.3 um varus maybe analytics yeah down 1.1 what's happening to lulu man at leisure which they they ain't buying enough $250 uh yoga pants and and t-shirts and 1.3 percent well okay so what's going on with netflix all that we gotta we gotta talk about this okay because this is gonna get interesting okay so netflix is up four dolls and 36 cents so there's a big movie out that just come out that's getting um the irishman did you hear this i did uh who's that denaro scorsese right okay so listen to this this is amazing actually so no one would finance this movie okay and netflix end up financing it okay and then netflix talked to the um the big show house is all the okay theaters okay and so what happens is that the theaters would never make a deal with any distributor unless the deal was that you wouldn't let allow this be on tv for approximately 90 to 120 days yeah to wait that long to wait that long sure netflix wouldn't budge okay okay so now the fear that does this turn into a huge hit so now the fear is the complaining okay so sorry bring me netflix would not budge would not budge they said listen okay we're gonna allow you to have this in 30 days if you want to see this in a big screen at the clock static and last week okay and 30 days this is gonna be on netflix pretty cool i got you this is gonna be on netflix in 30 days pretty cool and they just said hey listen we're more concerned about um our subscribers oh yes that's what it's about for sure right and you know so now the the cool thing is is that i i wonder if they're gonna end up breaking records for 30 days so as soon as i read that i said oh that's pretty cool i didn't see it both ways that's interesting i saw somebody out there just uh social media saying they had seen it and then saying it'll probably be on netflix in like 30 days and i thought they were being sarcastic you know saying everything hits the market in no time nowadays but no i guess that's pretty cool man yeah and we'll find the article i was flying around a little bit yeah we'll find the article but yeah and that's where the whole world is going man i know it's night remember how long it used to be where you see something in the theater and then yeah it was a long time before it made it to vhs or something right now it's in the theater then maybe it's on demand on your cable provider or something we gotta pay six dollars even now when you pull up the on demand they have the service where it's like uh 15 dollars you can watch them ahead of time right so they don't mind they'll they'll give you the price of a theater ticket if you want to get it early right seems like it's just a race to the faster to get there so that would make sense yeah pretty cool and it's wild yeah if we go into the down industrial strength versus the weakness folks uh we'll look at the point ones versus the percentage so yeah cva um chevron uh chevron chevron's uh putting the 28 positive points bowing 25 3m 18 goldman 14 taken away from it uh big mac minus 32 proctor minus 13 cvx let me go look at this baby look at that move man it's four dollars and 17 cents so what's happening here this is today and we're back to the weekend 11-3 yeah so i mean i had to see what the uh maybe it was that okay i mean i think i saw maybe it has to do with uh this one to buy part of there are they selling off maybe a portion to buy usp they're staking an oil field in ezerbizhen okay um 1.57 billion that was just kind of cashing in taking the cash and that market getting applied so buying chevron's not 10 stake almost 9.57 percent stake in the oil field plus an 8.9 percent stake in another pipeline known as btc that leads to the mediterranean port of that cayenne saiyan yeah that's always nice to get some cash man yeah talk about relieving uncertainty right you just basically sell off your assets yeah and you know you're taking a little swing quite a problem taking it with volume so you expect higher price to to still get out there and in this day and age and what's also going to happen with this um they start with the saudi aramco ipo it's going to be basically you know if you like the oil market you gotta you gotta look at like okay you know what's xon trading at and what is chevron trading at now that those are bigger but okay xon you know what's a big p e actually is that a full would be when you say bigger than what bigger all around the i mean then saudi aramco or would be bigger than what saudi aramco is much bigger than both of these companies but it's still going to be like what is what is their p e sure definitely oh that doesn't look right right no i think that's that's definitely right okay so i mean this is not a growth company no you know that's a big p e that's all i'm saying oh it's too big it could be yeah yeah right i thought you were saying it could be bigger no no i agree i agree i mean look it's yes yeah yeah xon's probably not right there chevron this and trailing p e 6.6 forward p e about 18 still a lot of money for you know but they're they're paying a 3.9 per six dividend dividend right now almost four almost four percent at this price and then xon is paying look at that xon's paying 4.92 percent okay you know that big numbers right certainly what you're going to be looking for inside that ipo is that what is going to be the dividends because you know we're sure they don't have growth yeah exactly yeah definitely if we go overseas we take a look at overseas what you'll see is that right across the world last night folks um you had some action green on the board the only thing i saw was the niké there in the red yeah so niké down three tenths of a percent hank sangh was up 1.6 shanghai five eighths okay and heavy there now next uh i think it's november 11th that's going to be singles day so singles over in china yeah that's the largest uh that's like their black friday but it's much cyber monday i was going to say all combined in one times ten exactly so if we take a look at the europe europe's up about 1.1 to 1.4 percent across the board yeah uh the uk uh this saga continues and we'll see where this is going to shake out but you know right now the bottom line is catching a bid we take a look at that is quite a bit man isn't it that's almost what two percent right we take a look at the the pound pounds going sideways uh euro really sideways move too not much movement they they both look to me that they they do want higher price so we'll see where that shakes out how's disney trading today they can keep my we had our disney coverage um our netflix uh one more not the day um no we're gonna not the di a you got in there disney disney dis um because anytime you talk netflix man i take a look at that disney quite a pop man from 130 to 133 over a couple days coming up to that price point but still you know i mentioned it if you're a long-term buyer disney not a bad price man no um yeah i mean it looks far and moving 2011 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as traders and active investors distributor foresight fund services llc don't forget you can listen to tfnn live on your mobile device 24 hours per day go to tfnn.com then hit watch tiger tv that's tfnn.com then hit watch tiger tv for the latest market information folks i doubt that was up 142 nazics up 46 s and p's up 16 let's go to david boston david what's going on brother gentlemen good morning how you doing morning david yourself just left your part of the the woods back on tuesday i was dealing in the upper 80s and today i'm looking at snow frost on pumpkins how do you love it snow frost really november november well it's just frost i mean i'm like no i know it's pretty intense it's our time of year you know what it's like it is i had a friend that got married at the aquarium actually i think it was saturday or sunday and they say they got 50 degrees and some sun i heard it had been raining a lot but you guys hopefully you guys get some good weather up there they lucked out with getting a little decent weather on uh their wedding at the i was like new england aquarium that's a cool spot of course it is it is a nice place it's a beautiful time of year right now um you know how it all goes yeah um i had a question for your regarding gold um i am looking at uh well from the gld the gdx i wanted to ask you specifically tom about how many though um with the dollar uh looking at climbing as far as the percentage of your best one to ask on us how would your take be on that as a shot versus the uh as opposed to moving with gold you mean shot harmony yeah it's only three at all stock though right but i mean uh so what what's what happens here so i i i get i get i get the understanding of it because if the dollar basically goes goes into lower price what what is going to end up happening is that the rand okay will get stronger versus what it was okay that being said though anything like we're at 14 and a half ran to one u.s. dollar right now anything like over 10 or 11 is like these companies still make money handle a fist okay and they have okay they have millions of ounces of gold i mean what happens is this is that they got like let's say a good gold mine it takes 10 tons of gold for like one ton one ounce of gold 10 tons versus one ounce right they probably have to take 30 tons for one ounce the differential is that there's millions of there even though they're they're you know the mile the mines are like you know two or three miles deep so okay that the the correlation the correlation goes right to like a 32 000 employees they still get paid with us dollars for their gold and they're basically you know paying and rand and if you take a look at this rand you're going to see the rand is still so dramatically weak compared to a long-term aspect of it i mean you know this is pretty intense man i mean you know the rand was trading at what eight dollar eight to one and 2010 when we were 2011 it was all-time highs was 2011 let's see nope back it up back it up right there look at that we were at 6.9 ran to one u.s. dollar that run from 2011 to 2015 was just remarkable yeah you know so i wouldn't be basically shot in how many okay well so the like the junior miners or the gld it'll be a better vehicle versus that notion of the uh the dollar going going lower and going with it so you're saying the shot the gdx or the gld is that what no no definitely not going going with the uh like gdx just buying the liners or yeah no i listen i think right now we're at the cusp meaning that we're at the cups yeah if we if we pull this up what you're going to see is that the metal market itself last week okay had gc the we broke that downtrend that would have been in and you know you broke it with good volume so now you get a shot and the that's right and the high i'm talking about is that 1566 that's the september high if we take a look at this what you're going to see you know is that you get a decisive break we broke it a week ago two weeks ago friday we came right back top side you come down with life volume came back and that's saying okay it wants to make the run to that 1566 and the equities did the same thing you know the the equities had volume the equities took a small swing point out if you take a look at this a lot of them took the small swing point out and it did have volume on the takeout um that's that's not well i can show you the day that i'm looking at this is the the swing point so that was 1.6 and versus 1.4 and hot and uh an equal eagle if we go to f and v and then you get franka nevada wants to go to all-time highs so you get franka nevada that swing point was 96 96 at 474 thousand and we took it out with 733 and this is the thing that's amazing actually to me is that this is actually quiet that was so close to highs you know and some of these gold stocks it really is because what we what we normally used to is that you normally get a run do you know what i mean and this has been a just a chop chop chop so yeah and i mean you're not hearing it you're not hearing it off the off the top like you uh will win gold that puts in those big runs it's not even close you'll you'll we'll hear it once you break the high but it's not even close yeah no doubt right okay cooking brother okay guys have a great one thank you have a great one you too dave thanks for calling man all right see you guys bye so let's get back to that netflix deal because we found the story yeah we were jumping around a little bit too uh because it is remarkable i was saying you know i've heard great things as i mentioned so the headline in this the inside the fail deal that almost made the irishman netflix's first wide theatrical release so the premise here that we just may have skipped over a little bit so it's not out in theaters everywhere so it's it's out in just select theaters it's probably not out in amc right it's not out in the big houses and so that's what the big houses were arguing that they wanted their terms and this is gets into some of the exact numbers so the theater chains look how close they were all right theater chains were willing to let the movie have a 60 day exclusive theatrical window yeah lower than what they usually push for so netflix got them down 12 days right uh but netflix wanted a 45 day window and they couldn't get in between that 45 and the 60 day deal so nonetheless uh they've released the movie in a limited theatrical rodin in which theaters are getting the higher end of the ticket sale split and multiple sets so this was the first look at the ticket split up there was pretty cool so amc and cineplex right yeah uh they're probably the ones that it's not at but they would they would try to get uh 75 25 and it looks like the way they're reading that whoever did end up taking it there they get the they get the good take so let's see amc the largest movie in the chain and cineplex which has 1600 theaters in Canada were in talks with netflix for months on showing the martin square cc's gangster epic according to their times times reported that bolt chains were even willing to do something that many industry thought were unthinkable shortening the exclusive theatrical release window from the movies to just 60 days before netflix would be allowed to make the movie available for streaming industry-wide it's usually 72 but the stock stock stalled because netflix wouldn't go higher than 45 and um that's not the whole story i guess that's where you go there right both sides weren't just negotiating days they were trying to get a better deal the theaters than they normally get from hollywood studios and uh usually studios get a 60-40 split meaning theaters only make up 40 percent we'll finish it up man because that's an interesting one the industry is changing yeah stay right there folks come in i come right back i'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life it's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share 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