you must know that, there is law - on numarous matters, like family, information technology, penal offence etc. these laws are made by parliament, state legislature and some other bodies.if anyone breaks the law by which one party is adversely effected, then the effected party may go to the court against the party who breaks the law. court after hearing both the parties, pronounced it's judgement according to law.
gudgement means after hearing both the parties give a decission, by the judge, who represents a court, - as per law. legal gudjement means - a judgement pronounced by a court of law.
news article is an article written by an editor or someone else on the basis of some current news. a little judgement may also there, but it is not a legal gudgement.
petitioner; & respondent; shall be minimum two or may be more in numbers, but a small group in comparison to the readers of news article.
where a legal judgement has a binding nature to both the perties, the parties are under compulsion to obey it. news article do not have such compulsion.
for a legal judgement, there must be at least two, or more parties, ie, petitioner; & respondent; and there shall be a court consist with at least one judge or may more in number as the case may be. but in news article there is no petitioner or respondent and there is no court.
for news article though there is no petitioner & respondent, but it has numorous readers. the purpose of news article is mainly to construct the public opinion. it tergets the greatest benifit of the people, whereas legal judgement tergets the existing law. based only on law.
news article not limited by law whereas it may based on law, ethics, political idiology, religious idology, social matter, and so on.