Saturday, October 24, 2015

WAVE 3- Non-Newsworthy Story #2-10/24/15

When I went on WAVE3's website, out of the website's top three stories, one caught my eye, it was the story about a shooting close to Churchill Downs, and this story was about two men that died in a shooting. Newsworthiness is whether or not a story will have a direct impact on a wide audience, which, out of the top four stories, none of the stories is newsworthy. This story was put on the home page, not because the story was newsworthy, it was put there because citizens love to read about crimes and because it took place so close to a well-known Louisville place, the story has more interest to the public. However, this story is not newsworthy because the story does not affect many people, and it doesn’t have a lasting effect. This story was published because people tend to enjoy stories about crime and the story was made to be a story that made the interesting important, because the people that listen to WAVE3 love to hear about crime. This story is at http://www.wave3.com/story/30341207/two-men-shot-near-churchill-downs-one-dead-at-scene-other-dies-at-hospital

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