[riverkid]

Originally Posted by shun

A now-happening protest may be finished in a few hours.

It depends on the angle the reporter wants, Shun. But also remember that not all ideas exressed will relate specifically in time to the actual event. Background to the protest could use present perfect. Past perfect might also be used or simple past. The main story could be related with the present continuous, even though the story would appear later, though I have to admit that this is more likely to happen in 'live' news broadcasts.

It depends on the time, some speaker choice, [as certain areas of English allow freedoms, sometimes known as 'artistic license', 'newspaper English'] semantics/meaning and structual considerations.




A now-happening rainfall and flood can last for a few days.
But a report can not tell how long the case really lasts. So how can a reporter now report a now-happening case in a tense so that it is still valid tomorrow as newspaper's readers see it?

Basically it's the same thing as above. But here, my guess is, as I envision it now, that we'd use some present perfect progressive; "the rian has been falling, off and on, for a week. The town has received __ cetimeters ...

That is to say, a man says something now and readers will hear it tomorrow in a correct tense. What kind of a tense it is?

I think it would be great to give some examples.