Why the news uses present tense?

[Sweetpumpkin]

Hello,

I've always been curious about why the news uses present tense in its articles. Obviously the interview in them were done in the past, they use... for example, "Federer says~ " "Rodick talks about~".

Why is that? My guess, it is because the reporter focus on the time when the readers read the news- not past, but present. Or... is there any other reasons?

Thanks,
sweetpumpkin

[Rfaleet]

I think beacuse of the present tense is the fundamental tense in the system of English tenses.in addition to present events, it can also express future and past events. In
this sense, the present tense is atemporal. Although future reference of the present tense is
usually complemented with an adverbial of time (the futurity thus being expressed lexically),
this need not always be so, with the future reference being clear from the context.