WDRB has been going overboard on unnewsworthy types of stories. One story - a story on McDonalds - was something that would not create a gapping hole in someone's life if they were not to know it. The article is called 'McDonalds recalls Happy Meal toy for choking risk'. The toy, a Hello Kitty plastic doll, is shown next to the article. The actual article itsself is very short, but has many quotes and sources to which they got their information. So though this article was pretty irrelevant to everyone's life except maybe a four year old girl, it manages to have the principle of verification down, that is no match and is almost completely cancelled out by the nature of the story. Hopefully the news that Hello Kitty whistles are no longer put into your Happy Meals doesn't upset you too much.

The article here

WHAS has been over doing the celebrity and fluff stories - this new article proves it. Bill Cosby, who has been famous since his sitcom The Cosby Show, put out a tweet onto twitter asking fans to make him into a meme - and with this came a reaction he wasn't expecting. People did turn him into a meme, but not exactly nice ones. Though this article is funny and laughable, it still isn't something very relevant at all. This story, among others that are fluffy and not important, have been racking up when it comes to how many there are on this news outlet. Newsworthiness just doesn't seem to be a trait that WHAS can manage. This station needs to get their stuff together and remember to report things that are actually important to what people need to know; at least have stories that are from real life, and all the other stories in their own separate tag.

The story here

The Courier Journal -

For you, or for your view?

 

 

For the past six weeks, the Courier Journal has noticably been reporting peripheral stories, such as human interest or celebrity and fluff. Their head story, online and in the news paper, has almost everyday been on a human interest type story, while four other outlets have been reporting crime. Are any of these stations reporting the most important news first? If thought about, no, they are not. It's not like CJ doesn't report important things at all, or that they never report the important things as headlines; it's just that they do it so much more frequently that those days are not nearly as noticable. People would rather look at stories that are not as serious and important as what they seem like. This brings up one of the commonly neglected yardsticks, newsworthiness. The stories may be newsworthy, but not worthy of the position they are given. The Courier may have been trying to get by on doing this unnoticed, but watch out CJ, it's been noticed.

Courier Journal-

Online and on point

 

The Courier Journal, on the date of October the 29th, 2014, had a wide range of stories on their online website - in fact, they had the widest range, starting at twenty three stories that were local, twelve that were national, and five that were international. These stories were also well spread out on the types of stories that they published. Here is what they had that day:

• accidents and disaster - 0
• politics and government - 5
• crime - 2
• war and diplomacy - 0
• business and economy - 10
• social issues, human interest, and education - 3
• health, consumer, and environment - 5
• celebrity, fluff, and other - 15

Though they do not have accident and disaster stories, nor do they have war and diplomacy, they still have stories in every other category, and in each category, there is a fair amount. With this, they have proven that they have inclusiveness, not leaving important things out.

Television is apart of life: everyone around the globe with a tv watches it. Maybe they have a favorite show or two, or check the news and weather. No matter how much they watch it, 7 hours a day or 15 minutes a week, it is watched. Why? Because it's convenient, and that's what everything is about, right? Convenience? All these fast food restaurants, highways, little convenience stores; all ways to make life 'simpler'. Television is just another convenience for humans. If leaving the house is too much work, one could watch church on tv; watch other people work out; watch other people socialize, other people do anything with their lives. Television isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can turn into one when used how most households use it: constantly. That's when it turns from a good thing to a bad thing. TV influences people like no other; when a favorite character is seen, or any character actually, wearing or doing something new, it's something that is 'needed', because television is so much like reality, we lose ourselves in it.

Movies date back to 1888 - When Dixon created a way to make evidence of motion on film. Since then we have built upon the idea of moving pictures with sound to go along this the picture. Very much like real life - In an hour and thirty minutes. Movies are a lot like TV in a way; People just like us going through daily life troubles, even if those troubles aren't daily for the average human. Movies are also a special experience, especially when seen in a movie theatre, surround sound and a huge screen displayed in front of the audience. There's the want to see the picture in the theatre maybe for that reason, but it's not ever that simple. Humans like to see things first, to see a life that isn't theirs displayed in a grander way than they ever see their life turning out to be. Movies depict a storyline that doesn't continue the next day, so, withing that hour and a half (given there is not a sequel), a whole story, a whole life, is basically written out for the viewer. Thousands upon thousands of frames flashed before one's own eyes in an ultimate illusion: that's all a movie is, an illusion. Not just in how the human's mind doesn't see each frame but rather sees it as a whole frame, but in what the movie is as one. The story put out is not real life, and never was. It's a way for real life humans to pretend like the happy endings and impossible worlds that movies put across are possible in at least some way. It's like watching a life happening - and being able to put the story into context of a real life.

*when on the internet*