So calling ISIS Islamic isn't novel enough to constitute news.
They were crucial, they were told, to improving Facebook's ability to discern, over time, what constitutes news.
At a time of media proliferation, he has written valuably about what constitutes news -- and what does not.
Like journalists working for more orthodox news organizations, they have biases, senses of humor and different interpretations of what constitutes news at any given moment.
Their standard for what constitutes news is, to say the least, pliable: NBC's convention coverage included Ben Affleck in Fenway Park pitching baseballs to Katie Couric on "Today".
Katie Russell, for Rape Crisis England and Wales, said: "There is nothing that really constitutes news in the video statement released online by a convicted rapist this evening.
When that happens, media content, still dominated by Western notions of what constitutes news and entertainment, will have to adapt, too.
The trust rejected the claims, but said the station had raised some "significant and valid questions about what constitutes news on 5 Live" and that a "more nuanced method of monitoring the proportion of news output" would be "desirable".
But it said the commercial station had raised some "significant and valid questions about what constitutes news on 5 Live" and said a "more nuanced method of monitoring the proportion of news output" would be "desirable".
In India, a "bride burning" takes place approximately once every two hours, to punish a woman for an inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry — but these rarely constitute news.
