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Non-news worthy stories on front page of the WLKY's website

 Today When I was scanning the front page of WLKY and noticed that they had a story titled" Alexa, Baby Shark!’ Little girl begs Alexa to play her favorite song ". The first thought that went through my head was how is this news worthie, the second thought that when through my head was, why is this on the front page of the website? And this is not the first time WLKY had done this, many times have they used nonnews worthie stories and put them in the front page of the website.     Another example of s non-news worthie story is, " 13 dogs who already have their Halloween costumes ready" .  Although this story is very cute, it has no impact on the reader or anyone else in the community, showing that it is not news worthie. WLKY also put this story on the front page of there website one day, a good news organization should always put news worthie stories on the front page.       When WLKY puts non-newsworthy stories on their front page it resembles bad journalism. Th
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Thoughts About WLKY: Name of man killed in Clarksville shooting released

Title: Name of man killed in Clarksville shooting released     When reading this article about a man who got shot by a neighbor because he was abusing his wife and her 9-year-old daughter, I found that it had little relevance and impact to the people living in the community. When writing the story, the journalist did not implicate how this affects members of the community or why this affects them.    The journalists just told us what happened, the killer's name, and that there will be no charges on the man that killed the abuse of husband. These are all things stated by the police, showing that this is is not following one of the seven-yard stick, enterprise. Enterprise is when a journalist is actively seeking answers to questions asked by the community, however, this story is not doing this, but instead just repeating what the police said.  They did not ask the witnesses or interview the wife or daughter. This causes the story to be a lot less unreliable too because the little

Thoughts About WLKY: Three arrested on theft, burglary-related charges

Three arrested on theft, burglary-related charges    As I scrolling throw WLKY's web page, I stumbled upon a story about 3 burglarers who stole property worth around 10,000 dollars. Althothought the story was interesting it was not very relevant to the community. I believe that the journalist could have done a better job at relating it to the community and explaining the effects of this robbery. They could have explained how there have been lots of robberies in that area and because of this people might want to invest in better security or that more young people are resorting to crime as a living and because of this high school graduation rates have dropped in that area.    Another thing I noticed while watching the video is that they only refer to the police when using evidence, this cause there story to be less reliable and more narrow mind. However, if they had interviewed a witness or the owner of the house that was robbed, they might have had more of a reliable story. 

Thoughts About WLKY: Another runner claims to be chased by a man at Tom Sawyer Park

Another runner claims to be chased by a man at Tom Sawyer Park    I enjoyed reading about this news story because of the good journalism. When watching this story, Alex Durham, the journalist, did a great job of finding sources to back up the fact the running alone is not a good idea and that runners have been getting chased by people at Tom Sawyer Park. The sources that they used were runners and walkers, police, and JCPS cross country teams. When doing this, she made her story credible.     This is a good example of big-picture reporting because she focuses on how these two events will have long-lasting effects on the people that will be going to the park and the park security. She also tries to not target one certain group of people, by interviewing and talking to different people. https://www.wlky.com/article/another-runner-claims-to-be-chased-by-a-man-at-tom-sawyer-park/23120491

Comments for class discussions: 72 Hours of Hell

72 Hours of Hell  Although today I was not in Journalism classes, during Digital Design my class was asked to go to Mr. Miller's room to watch a power point and take part in a discussion they were having. We talked about the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the Shooting at Jefferson town Kroger, and pipe bombs being delivered to news organizations and politicians. If I was to share my opinion about everything we talked about during that discussion I would go far over 2 pages. So I am just going to talk about one question we were asked in the powerpoint, why did these things happen?    Just like many questions we ask ourselves, there is not just one correct answer. However, I believe the people in power has played a big role in causing these events. For starters, they have not done a good job at spreading awareness about things like gun violence. Plus these criminals are motivated to do what they did by something and I think that people in power can easily persuade them to t

Response to Marjorie May's Blog: Response to Marjorie May's Blog

Response to Marjorie May's Blog: Response to Marjorie May's Blog I really enjoyed reading Marjorie's blog because she talked about an aspect in journalism that can be overlooked sometimes, populist and elitist media. She first stated that she thought that the  Courier-Journal was a populist news organization. She followed her statement by explaining what  populist and elitist media is.  Then gave an example of  populist articles she found in  the  Courier-Journal, when doing this it made it easier to understand her train of thought and made me think of other news organizations that may be populist too.  After that Marjorie tells us that she believes that the  Courier-Journal is targetting older people, the evidence she uses to back up her claim is that the ads that they put in are mostly from medicine and eyeglasses companies, which are things that old people tend to need rather than younger people. I strongly agree with her on this, just looking at the ads used in new

Response to Morgan David's Blog

Response to Morgan David's Blog When reading Morgan David's blog I agreed with the critics she gave WHAS11. She first goes into telling us that WHAS11 has repeated a certain story 12 times. This was important for her to include because a good journalist does active reporting, not re-reporting the same story. After that, she goes into how that story has nothing to do with Louisville and does not affect use in any way. I strongly agree with Morgan on this. A local news should not report on something that only affects people in Wisconson. This breaks one of the yardsticks, local relevancy. Overall I believe Morgan made some good points in her blog about news relevance and alerting us about the repeating stories.  Link: http://morgandvd.blogspot.com/2018/10/missing-girl-or-missing-news.html