Again... The newsworthiness of WLKY is killing me!

The post before this one talked about how the weather forecast on WLKY was unnecessarily super long and how it was newsworthy but time-consuming and not as relevant. This post is almost the same thing, except this one, is an article I found on WLKY's website.

I feel I should stop talking about how much bogus people post on WLKY's website. MAjority of the time it's actually notable like people doing great things in their communities and such, but making a slideshow about American Celebrities aren't helping the community a tiny bit. 

It's literally a slideshow commentary about people like movie actors, singers, and other famous people. I don't see a newsworthiness in this post at all, and thankfully it's not really made a big deal of, because it would only disappoint me more to see this be a top story of some sort. It's not that I'm a hater of this post, but if you wanted to post this online, then you could've just posted on a site that's made for this topic, you know?

News Critique - REALLY long weather Forecast on WLKY

I get that during that during a thunderstorm of almost any kind, it needs to be documented so the people can be informed. And we should get an update every now and then on a channel so we're up to date. But on Halloween, when a severe storm came in, it took up almost ten minutes to tell us about the weather.
Safety is a primary concern, but WLKY was taking up all the important stuff, like what's happening in Politics or everything going on in economics, etc. Most of our local stories were eaten up by how much time the weather forecast of what would be a ten-minute storm that didn't cause a lot of damage to anything.
I'm not trying to be like "oh, well WLKY isn't good about keeping up with their stories and only cares about the weather." OF course, I'd never say that. Though I'm getting the impression that WLKY doesn't always pick the best headlines for their channels, like on their website that Mr. Miller said, literally about the thieves being stuck in an elevator. Of course, I'd wish I'd had some proof of how long that forecast was, but I will provide a link to the thieves in elevator story.

www.wlky.com/news/thieves-stuck-in-elevator/35366948

Response to Liz's WHAS Non-Newsworthy Post

Just before Halloween, Liz made a comment about the body bag murder that happened in Indiana as a non-newsworthy. I can both agree and disagree, for mostly one Reason: Just because something is in the adjacent state doesn't mean it isn't newsworthy.
Indiana and Kentucky are literally right next to each other and some of the closest counties are considered part of Kentucky's county. That's a little of the reason why we have a Kentuckiana.
Though there's another reason why I'm making this post is because she mentioned in her blog , "there is not a clear goal of telling people about the crime, it does not impact a lot of people for a long time, and the article only has quotes from the police, no witnesses, family members, or anybody else, making it one-sided." This, however, is true for WHAS, but NOT WLKY. WLKY got coverage on the victim's mother and had a whole interview of her side of the story, and how shocked she was of how her son died.
Not to say this isn't a fake blog post or just that Liz is WHAS hater, though it's just saying that you need to be mindful on what you label as newsworthy and non-newsworthy because there's always another side to the stories we see.

72 Hours of Hell Response

Over the past few days over the weekend, we've had a lot of intense news over the weekend. Having to do with the Kroger Shooting, the pipe bombs incident, and the Synagogue Shooting. When we got into second period, and Mr. Miller said we were all going to meet together in the same room, I was a bit surprised.
Even though I knew kind of what it was going to be like, I was kinda shocked by the reaction the J & C teachers gave us. Certainly, these events should not go unmarked or unnoticed like an old news story. It made me wonder what we could do as journalists instead of standing by and just documenting and informing but turns out that we can do more with those skills.
We need to state our opinions more and the real facts so we can both tell the people that something is definitely wrong.
I just kind of wanted to say something about that second period because it was very eye-opening, and broadens the purpose of journalism, which I'm very glad that Mr. Miller and Mrs. Palmer decided to do this because it was extremely helpful.

Response to Satchel's Defense against WDRB Post

What Satchel said about Evie's post was true, not that I don't demote Evie's claim on this, but Satchel made a really good point. A half an hour of news does not represent an entire day's worth of news on a station, maybe half of one would, but not a half an hour. I like how Satchel politely, (Keyword, "Politely") defended WDRB for its airing social issues and human interests stories.

In his post, he said, " While I do see it as slightly problematic that they had no political stories on either the broadcast or website, especially coming up on the midterms, the numbers Evie presents aren't necessarily demonstrating that WDRB airs irrelevant stories." Then he goes on to defend WDRB. 

Though in good defense, this is coming from a WDRB person, and it would be interesting to hear it from a non-WDRB person. Satchel made some good points to defend his article, and you should probably go take a look for yourself.

http://satchelsjcblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/in-defense-of-wdrb.html

Class Topic - Musical Experience

A topic we discussed in class a little while ago ("Ahem", that I was not fully present for) was how we experienced music. When I got there, there were two names on the board, one of them was Berliner and the other was Edison. Edison made the phonograph and Berliner made the gramophone.

It was so interesting when we got to the part of how musical experiences changed over the years. We made a graph of before the 1890s and after the 1890s. I found it eye-opening that there were many ways you could experience music.

I thought it a very scary thought to live in a world where music wasn't mobile and you'd have to pay to go to an orchestra or learn the music to play for yourself, or to literally think about it and that's it. Though in a way it's kind of cool because then you can go and experience the music in a real concert and experience something incredible the first time.

Then again, I would want to experience this and luckily we still get to thanks to orchestras that perform today. 

WLKY's Diversity in News

The News channel, WLKY, the one I'm following, has a bland taste that doesn't seem to change when it comes to there stories. The structure of their 6:00 o' clock news starts out with a top story, then goes on to smaller local stories or national stories, and the to local sports.

I found this funny the other day when they broadcasted the whole Kroger Shooting, but nothing about the Khashoggi incident in Saudi Arabia. What the heck DUDE! I get the Kroger Shooting was huge news, and I mean HUGE. But to discard an international story of a missing renowned Washington Post Author and replace our local stories.

Maybe I'm wrong, and earlier in the day they did do something with the Khashoggi story. But I think it's strange to put all these other stories and not include the top most important stories. I guess that's how WLKY does it. Maybe I'm being too critical about this, but I still have a funny feeling why they wouldn't at least sneak a couple of other national stories.     

Response to Liz Klein's News Media critique

I 99.9 percent agree with what Liz said about how a grizzly bear attack isn't as effective on the population. And I also agree with the fact that news articles can have deeper meanings like I was told by Wesal and passed on to Evie.

Though to be a little fair, the Courier-Journal posts a lot of things. Of course, every now and then there will be a pointless article about something like a person being killed by a grizzly bear. Which isn't all that shocking, you should run away if you're even near a grizzly bear anyway.

The reason, as we learned in class, why these articles appear is because, in most cases, there isn't any more 'important' news or 'newsworthiness' to post or write about. Journalists will have a week where they'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel for some fill-in article.

Now I'm not saying that this article isn't important or is important, but merely a fill-in article. Once I read a story about a kid who called 911 because he wanted to arrest the Grinch before he stole Christmas, and that was from WHAS news website.

So Liz isn't wrong at all, though there are other reasons why articles like this can be posted. Sometimes they're just fill-ins and sometimes they're really important. Though the most important thing is to never underestimate an article even if it isn't relevant to you. Journalists try to make livings too. 

Response to Evie's Local Relevance Post

Although in many cases I do believe in what Evie says in this post about Local news relevance. A murder mystery in California seems like it's unnewsworthy. But I think, just like I did, Evie may have skipped over a bigger meaning.

When I went to check in Wesal El  Majbri's article, which is http://wisalj1.blogspot.com/ if you want to go and check her blog out. She wrote a criticism post on my News Relevance post about how I indeed skipped over a bigger picture. Which Wesal is definitely not wrong about, but it's a good thing to know this. Because this could in some ways be relevant to the nation.

And I want to pass this on to Evie's point that this murder in California isn't relevant at all. And that she's completely correct that it doesn't affect us as a mass medium. But What Evie should think about is that, like Wesal said about mine, is you should look at the bigger picture of what this article tells you.

In conclusion, I think that Evie is not wrong about her statement, but for future reference, she should take into consideration that there's a bigger picture to a news article than meets the eye at first glance. Always make sure that there's a deeper meaning to every article. 

Demassification

I'm kind of in a grey spot when it comes to if Demassification is a good thing or bad thing for a company. To recall from class, demassification is when a widely broadcasted company coverts their focus to a niche audience. It's kind of good thing in a way but can add some consequences.

So say you're a news company and you bought all these other companies and have created a conglomerate business. You decide that after a while of distributing news, franchise and services you want to focus towards something specific, like a sports audience.

It's not a bad thing to focus on sports. It can bring you two main things, one good and bad. The good thing would be you'd be making a lot of money off sports franchise since a huge percentage of our population is all about sports.

Though the bad side of this would be that just focusing on sports would mean there isn't much room for other unique things like you wouldn't do much with the business unless you partnered but most of the time that doesn't always last. But for the most part, it's a good decision to do, because you could make a lot of money, if not more money, by converting to a demassified business.

The 10 elements of Journalism

The ten elements of journalism are a lot more complicated than I thought. To be frank, I never even knew there were 10 elements to journalism. I mean I knew that journalism must've had rules of some sort. Of course, there would be because, without rules, I'm guessing the news would be in a shambles.

When we first learned about these, there were a couple I thought I wouldn't see on there: It was Forum and Watchdog. Forum is where you're getting feedback from the people and citizens themselves. Of course, I kind of knew why it would be relevant and that's because it's important to get a public opinion because that's what the news is for, for the people.

Now when Watchdog came along, I had no clue what the heck it was until Mr. Miller told us about it. It's a little cool to know that one of the biggest helpers in help keeping check with those in power is news organizations. They're like judges, but not legally or by law. I mean CBS can't court-martial me if I was a foreign spy. They're more like Lighthouses, showing us who's been abusing their power and who's the best choice for president, or who's got the best background and skills.

Nowadays, not very many organizations follow most of the ten elements of journalism. Probably because it can be hard to forget one of the elements. But it's important for a journalist to follow these elements. Journalism isn't just a job, but a duty to the country as well.

Mass Comunication

I find it interesting that mass communication in other terms, has the same steps as most other things, like speeches and movies.

Though I'm not sure what exactly the process that the steps to mass communication are called, they do follow the same attributes of making stories and music. First, you start with an idea, then you go from there.

In a film, you start out the same way as Mass Communication. You start out with this idea and you shape and mold it through preproduction. And in speeches, you start out with exactly the same thing in film and writing.

It's so fascinating how we all take this same simple concept and turn into this universal blueprint in how to become known and how to get a message out. I find it cool that we can all understand this process, not just Americans, but all over the world.

Business Conglomerates

To be honest, I never really knew what a Business conglomerate was until we learned it in class. It's kind of cool learning about how the business conglomeration process works.

First of all, from a film perspective, I always thought a business conglomeration was when one movie company would pair up with another, like Paramount and Warner Brothers, or in video games like Havok and Bungie, or in technology like Apple and Microsoft. But those are called Partnership, which I didn't realize up until now and surprised me a little.

From what I learned, I learned that Conglomerates are actually when companies will buy out another, like a company within a company. An example would be something like Nestle, who owns all sorts of businesses like water distribution, candy distribution I'm pretty sure they do box dinners, but you get the idea.

Importantly, I also know that between a populist and elitist distribution company- the two main "binary models" -, business conglomerates push for populist because they're already making money and want to make more. 

Finally, and can now say that I know the difference between a partnership and business conglomerates because at first, they can be confusing. And they're pretty interesting to learn. 

Relevant matters, Newsworthiness - News Media Critique

I remember in our Journalism class about how relevant matters are important. News organizations have been known to do half and half a good and a bad job with hooking consumers. Their headlines are gripping sometimes, but some don't do as much a good job as you think. I was scrolling through the news app on my phone when I stumbled upon an article about a manslaughter by a white cop in Texas, who mistakingly shot her neighbor. Of course, my immediate reaction was "I don't care about this, this isn't relevant to me at all." But that's not true.
Fox News' headline for this story was, "Female Dallas cop who killed man in his home charged with manslaughter." I get that sometimes you can't always come up with a shorter and better headline, but at least make it gripping, which brought me back to relevance. The article was actually talking about a Grand Jury topic that I didn't care to hear about.
It just confuses me why exactly I would need to hear about this. There've been over a thousand police shootings in the U.S. and there are even more today. News relevance should only matter to national topics, like Fox News or CNN, etc. Where we leave the more local stuff to the local stations in the local cities.
There's really no reason why Fox News needs to cover a fatal police shooting in Dallas, Texas. It was tragic, yes. But was it relevant for the country? No. In class, we learned that News relevancy is only relevant when it starts affecting lives. A Dallas, Texas police shooting does not affect a Deli Worker in New York. (Don't even think about looping it around.) We can all agree that these two things never have a thing in common. Ever.
This is called Newsworthiness. And it means "Does it affect a lot of people for a long time."
You can tell me. Does this article have that much of an impact on people's lives for a long time?

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