Purists among journalists would cringe a referring to news as a commodity. ------- With changing times, media habits changed as did consumer habits, news became 'infotainment' as cars became suvs and what not. (A) But pretensions apart, it has always been marketed like cars or any other consumer item.(B) Newsmen worked from crowded rooms littered with papers and lined rows of typewriters.(C) They even had to share editing facilities with producers of other programmes