Soft news/ Light-hearted

Soft or light-hearted news is not seen as important or serious as hard news.Soft or light-hearted news is so much different than hard news as it is not serious at all yet is still shown on places like the news. This type of news is also presented towards the end of a news program as it is uplifting for the audience rather than having more serious hard news. This way by having it at the end it puts people in the happy mood to sit and watch the rest of prime time television.

Below is a video of a dog trying to save another dog. The video was showed on the news and you can hear the interviewer talking about the event that has taken place as it is not about current affairs or anything serious like murder or current wars it is therefore considered soft or light-hearted news.

As you can see this video will put people in an uplifting mood as they have just seen something positive and happy rather than some serious hard news which could result in quite an upsetting mood or a negative mood.