News Media Critique

The news media critique  I chose was from the source of WDRB news stationed in Louisville, Kentucky. While scrolling through their website I came across an article that 1) didn't relate to anything involving my peers or I and 2) not many people know who this girl is that is being mentioned. I believe that this space could have been use otherwise but as I read through the article, which didn't take long, I found out that it was a traffic reporters for WDRB daughter had made the University of Louisville Cheer leading team for the upcoming season.

            I understand his enthusiasm about his daughters accomplishments but lets be real, does it really need to be on the home screen of WDRB.com? This article consisted of four short sentences, four pictures and about a forty second video. While watching the video I saw that this segment actually made it on to TV following Louisville's huge victory versus Syracuse on Friday. The link to this video is below and I  suggest that you watch it and see how you feel about it.

 night.http://www.wdrb.com/story/32990020/mike-marshalls-daughter-makes-u-of-l-cheerleading-debut

           So what do you think about this average girl being on television just because her dad is? I think that it is unfair to all of the stories that deserve more attention and feedback than this one. There are so many news related things referring to the election, widespread of drugs and all of the weapons that have been exposed at schools all across JCPS. Now, all of these topics have been introduced but the people need to know more about these situations that affect a widespread of people rather than this story that affects only the cheer leader and her family.

          In this topic, the writer does not follow the 10 elements of journalism very well. He fails to make the important interesting and does exactly the opposite which he made the interesting important which you don't want to do in journalism at any time. This article and its publisher also didn't follow many of the aspects of the 7 yardsticks of journalism very well either. One of the main yardsticks includes local relevance and that refers to how that story or article relates to every single citizen. In this case, this story doesn't relate to any of the citizens in Louisville except for a maybe a select few that know the subject that is being mentioned in the article.

         Overall, I think that the news source if WDRB could've avoided this story and replaced it with some in-depth writing and reporting. I completely understand that the father, Mike Marshall, is proud but not everybody has the same opinion or desire on his daughter as others do in the most positive way.