The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

Complete and utter rubbish

Please stop with this nonsense. As usual acronyms for old words are usually jokes. News is plural of new which comes from latin nova and french novels.

as the saying goes, 'if the origin of a word is ever said to be an acronym, it is probably false.'

This is false. Is there a way to remove a "fact" like this?

That is really cool! I never even thought about it!

This is simply untrue... 'news' simply means 'things that are new.' It's not exciting, but it's true.

tis f******* you

Did someone fart?

i dont think its an acronym, i think its an initialism or somethin like that

The word news probably comes from the greek word "νεα" which means ....something new.

best ............... fact

news  
    n  functioning as sing  
1  current events; important or interesting recent happenings  
2  information about such events, as in the mass media  
3  
a  the. a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type  
the news is at six    
b  (in combination)  
a newscaster    
4  interesting or important information not previously known or realized  
it's news to me    
5  a person, fashion, etc., widely reported in the mass media  
she is no longer news in the film world    
    (C15: from Middle English newes, plural of newe new (adj) on model of Old French noveles or Medieval Latin nova new things)  
♦   newsless    adj  
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-synonyms/news

the word "news" comes from the Greek word "nea", which means something New. It has nothing to do with North East West or South.