Updates With Mya

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 ho...

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

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 ...

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 strong...

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

Media Critique "Toddler killed after being struck by vehicle in southwest Louisville" - WLKY     On WLKY's news website I found an article that talked about a mother in Louisville accidentally hitting her toddler with the car.  This story does not follow all 7  rules of the 7 Yardsticks of Journalism . Although this story did take place in Louisville it had little relevance to the actual citizens of Louisville, which means it does not follow the first yardstick, "newsworthiness". This story does not affect a lot of people for a long time, sure it does affect the child's family for a long time, but otherwise, it does not really affect anyone else. Away the journalist could have made this story more relevant is by talking about the importance of an adult supervisor and then listed multiple similar events happening.     When reading this article and watching the video I noticed how they had s...

When reading Marjorie's blog post it helped me look at the history of the printing press with a whole new perspective.  I found it very interesting when she compared   Gutenberg's metal moveable typing press to stamps and typewriters. I would agree with her that the typewriter does seem to mimic  Gutenberg's printing press, but then again typewriting is a form of printing so it does make sense why those two things would be related. This compareasince  made it easier to imagine how it worked. Although I think she could have gone into more detail about the printing press its self, I did think she did a great job comparing it to things. Go check out her blog page:   http://marjoriesfirstblog.blogspot.com/