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Reminded of one of the gambling games, Green Martians or something was the game where after you get into the mini-game there's a few paragraphs of a redneck commenting about the experience. Over 3 different bonuses finally got to read the entire article on screen :P

Although i don't recall many games that do this. SimCity 2000 was you got annoyances that you were 'tearing down the trees' in order to make room to actually you know... start a city.

Actually i think a couple of the Blackwell games had newspaper entries and the like, but it's been a while...

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http://www.mobygames.com/game/paperboy

; )

Railroad Tycoon had the headline thing, but it was just a way to give general updates.

Lukas Pope, the creator of "Papers, Please", before making that game made a short flash game called The Republia Times as part of a game jam. It's sort of a precursor to that game. You do your job as a newspaper editor and need to balance resistance to the regime and keeping your family safe.

There's also a different game called The Westport Independent that follows a similar principle. This one is a full game, but it seems to be not that well regarded.

Oregon Trail was literally made for a teletype machine, which was a primitive computer that printed instead of displayed.

Hmmm i'm reminded there was also the daily news you had to keep track of in part of a stock broke ... not a game i actually played, rather saw it and how a programmer for a general AI was commenting how it couldn't be used to play the stock market... But it did have daily things like 'gold up, trees down' commentary suggesting what stocks you should buy/sell.