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// On :Kamis, 21 November 2013
News item text is a text that informs
the readers about events of the day or what has happened. The events which
are newsworthy or important for the reader.
Generic Structure of News Item Text
1. Main Events: Major events that
deserve to be news.
2. Elaboration: A description of the background of the event, leaders or
those involved in the incident,
the scene of the incident, news and other news
related to the event.
3. Resource: of Information (source): Source of news,
expert opinions about the event, the comments of the witnesses who saw
the incident, and other references are used
to enhance the information in news writing.
Language Feature of News Item
1. Focusing on circumstances
2. Using material process
Town ‘Contaminated
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| Newsworthy events | Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town. |
| Background Events | Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock. |
| The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy. | |
| Sumber InformasiSources | A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy. |
