<P> Regular people in societies with news media often spend a lot of time reading or watching news reports . Newspapers became significant aspects of national and literary culture--as exemplified by James Joyce's Ulysses, which derives from the newspapers of June 16 (and thereabouts), 1904, and represents the newspaper office itself as a vital part of life in Dublin . </P> <P> A 1945 study by sociologist Bernard Berelson found that during the 1945 New York newspaper strike, New Yorkers exhibited a virtual addiction to news, describing themselves as "lost", "nervous", "isolated", and "suffering" due to the withdrawal . Television news has become still further embedded in everyday life, with specific programming anticipated at different times of day . Children tend to find the news boring, too serious, or emotionally disturbing . They come to perceive news as characteristic of adulthood, and begin watching television news in their teenage years because of the adult status it confers . </P> <P> People exhibit various forms of skepticism towards the news . Studies of tabloid readers found that many of them gain pleasure from seeing through the obviously fake or poorly constructed stories--and get their "real news" from television . </P> <P> An important feature distinguishing news from private information transfers is the impression that when one reads (or hears, or watches) it, one joins a larger public . In this regard news serves to unify its receivers under the banner of a culture, or a society, as well as into the sub-demographics of a society targeted by their favorite kind of news . News thus plays a role in nation - building, the construction of a national identity . </P>

When does a person become the source and channel for information