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The reporting of the extraordinary is so ingrained in the news industry that when defining what the news is at its most basic level, journalists will say that the news is not 'dog bites man' but 'man bites dog' - that is, a dog biting a man is a relatively common occurrence, so it isn't news, but a man biting a dog is unusual, and therefore news. This perfectly captures the tendency for news stories to be about events that are infrequent, unusual and negative.