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.