Media Critique

TV News Stations: Blowing Proportions to the Little Things and not Showing the Big Things

Looking back of what the lead stories are for the TV news stations as well as Courier Journal during the month of October, the pattern still continues. In most cases, the four TV stations often had lead stories that have been not much significance to a whole wide audience, thus making it non-newsworthy. Their topics are typically not core/peripheral nor does it ever have that direct and lasting informational impact toward a large audience. Typically, the stories that they reported as news stories were local crimes of sorts or any accidents that had happen in the Kentuckiana area. Though they say they are providing local news to the general public because that’s what their priority, many other local issues could have been pressed as their lead story like the Courier Journal. Using the Courier Journal as the lead example, they have done a good job in making sure that whatever stories they mostly have are important to their audience, which is mostly local also. If the TV stations are able to go toward a large variety of topics and not just mostly crime and accidents, the substantial information they would be able to send out would be more newsworthy and a good aspect of what good journalism quality should really be.