Thursday, November 14, 2013

Media Critique

WAVE: Few, but not Millions

Of the events that were told Theo Keith, a local couple was left to a giant hole in their backyard after a sewage pipe was hit when they originally had wanted to build a below-ground pool for their grandchildren. Though it is a feat in which they were not informed of the situation that they had an underground pipe that they were not told of, this disrupts a part of the yardstick of newsworthiness. To consider what makes it a newsworthy story, it would have to have a direct and lasting informational impact among the story. However in this case, this type of story was done in a way in which it wasn’t that newsworthy. Rather than affecting a large part of the Louisville community, it had only affected the couple themselves and how their situation is going so far with the MSD. Though it can be considered important to the Stefaniks, it is not considered something worth to be told about to the whole public if the situation will be fixed soon vice versa to a situation in which might affect all of Louisville for a period of time.

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