A source of interest and a sick twist of entertainment can be linked to skeletons, (especially around Halloween) such as in scary movies where they jump out of the dark, unhinged jaw gaping open. They are entertaining (again, in a sick and twisted way), yes, but are they relevant enough to make a whole news article about?

Archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (otherwise known as ULAS) have found eleven skeletons at a lost chapel in Leicester. Two of them, the skeletons focused on and that seem to be the center of the article's purpose, are said to be "holding hands." And though this fact is quite interesting and mysterious, something that would catch a reader's attention, is it really as important as they make it out to be, being labeled as the latest on World News?

According to the yardstick 'newsworthiness,' one of the Seven Basic Yardsticks of Journalism Quality, it is not. It is not a subject, that of a couple of skeletons with their fingers entwined in a sign of dead love (hah), that will have an impact on a large audience. Though it may be a core topic (science/tech) it is not of a level of importance to the science community, such as discovering the extreme length of human stupidity, that it will mater to people and keep it on their minds for six months at the least.

Then there is the core principle 'make the important interesting,' one of nine Core Principles of Journalism, which also supports the idea that this article is lacking relevance. Of course the fact that two skeletons, having been buried around 700 years, were found holding hands in their grave is quite interesting; but as interesting as it is, the principle isn't just about making something interesting. The point has to be important in the first place. For reasons why this isn't an important article, please refer to the previous paragraph.

There is nothing wrong with articles on things other than politics being counted as world news; things can still be just as equally relevant. There's a fine line between relevant and interesting, both commonly being muddled together based upon perception. This article could have been labelled better, seeing as when you go to the page for world news, it is surrounded by links centered around ISIS and Iraq. It was put into the wrong category, and though the article itself is a fairly nice article to read, it's not something that would be happily read by viewers if they were trying to catch up on their worldly destruction.

Link to the article: Skeletons found holding hands after 700s years