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That article about a new building opening? It will house the [[Doomsday Device]] [[MacGuffin]].
Reporter mentions sudden disappearance of a species? They're actually aliens going home.
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators. Whatever the seemingly small-fry buzz, it may appear irrelevant or incidental right now but will turn out to be critical to the resolution of the plot.▼
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators.
Contrast [[Ignored Vital News Reports]], in which the importance of a news item is obvious to the audience but the characters ignore it. This does not include news items that are purely [[Foreshadowing]]; to be Chekhov's News, the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.▼
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▲Contrast [[Ignored Vital News Reports]], in which the importance of a news item is obvious to the audience but the characters ignore it. This does not include news items that are purely [[Foreshadowing]]; to be [[Chekhov's News]], the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.
Compare with [[Coincidental Broadcast]], in which the randomly-encountered news is relevant to the what's happening ''right now'' in the plot.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Summer Wars]]'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards the [[Big Fancy House]] everyone's living in.
* In ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', there's a running news item involving a dirigible. At the climax, {{spoiler|it runs into trouble and Kiki must rescue her friend Tombo, who's desperately hanging from a rope on it}}.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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* News reports early in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' prominently mention {{spoiler|Hugh Darrow's Panchaea project}}, which turns out to be [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. And additionally, the newsreader narrating those reports turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gunman]].
* Inverted in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]''. The [[Justified Tutorial]] has [[Player Character|Jake]] [[The Ace|Logan]] evaluating a novice flight instructor, and the tutorial's combat section has a group of drones go haywire and attack you. Later in the game, a news item reports that the instructor you evaluated saved her students when this happened again.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* [[RWBY]]: In V1E2a, a newscast shows a relatively-peaceful protest by Faunus before it's switched over to Glynda welcoming the students to Beacon. V1E9 introduces (to those who haven't seen the prologue trailers) the White Fang, a not-at-all-peaceful Faunus terrorist group.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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[[Category:News Tropes]]
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