Wikipedia needs to do what is good for Wikipedia, and some news coverage is good for Wikipedia. Detailed original reporting is outside Wikipedia's mission, as is a sophisticated presentation of the significance of news. As things happen, information about them is added to the corpus of human knowledge and thus added to Wikipedia. This includes information on what was considered news at a particular time. Like its performance in other areas Wikipedia's treatment of the news is rather pedestrian, simply a compendium of what is being reported. It is not and is not intended to be a record of what actually happened at a particular time. Fred