Gopher can be accessed from within Netscape via URL or WWW Page. Veronica is Gopher's search tool and is found in most high-level Gopher menus.
News is a highly democratic Internet service, hence a frequent target of the enemies of free speech.
On the Internet, as elsewhere, powerful individuals and organizations are always eager to sacrifice your Constitutional rights to free speech, privacy, information etc. Netscape's built-in newsreader can receive from and post to newsgroups. You are initially subscribed to several newsgroups of interest to new users. Notice that a properly quoted URL in a news posting will be interpreted by Netscape as an hypertext link. Therefore, you may find yourself frequently going back and forth between News Windows, Web Windows, and even Mail Windows.