Skip to main content

My Response to John Woodhouse's: Entertaining, But Not Newsworthy

My Response to John Woodhouse's: Entertaining, But Not Newsworthy



When reading John's post about a local mother and daughter winning a 1 million dollar power-ball I could quite easily understand where he was coming from when talking just about how newsworthy the story was. When stories of power-ball winnings are aired most people don't think deep into that subject, or even pay attention to the topic of conversation, so obviously it's not a very newsworthy topic to cover in the first place. 

When news stations mention things here and there, like a quick sentence about how much the power-ball is worth, then I think it's fine, and can be found interesting. But when you have a whole story dedicated to a duo who won a prize, it isn't necessary. 

John stated, "I believe and know that our local news has the duty and obligation to provide us with the most current, correct, and newsworthy news. But when stories like this are so frequently aired, it makes me feel like our own news stations don't value providing us with news that will have any lasting impact on our community whatsoever." When I read this I really did realize that many smaller topics are meant to be celebrated between a tight community, like the winners family, instead of the stations watchers.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Magazines - 1st National Media

Magazines - 1st National Media Today in class we discussed the topic of magazines, specifically regarding the fact that they were the first national media. Magazines were quite appealing to me, seeing as they are still quite often found in stores everywhere like checkout lines and bookstores. We talked about Magazines including different types of content, making them appeal to more audiences. Comics and pictures were used to draw in people who were illiterate, and other things such as recipes, poems, and songs were effective towards aliterate people.  I found it interesting that many types of media have had to desmassify throughout history, because of other new medias taking their spot, magazines being no different. Though I still find interest in magazines. People flip through them in waiting offices or purchase them before a plane ride. Almost like movies, magazines are still a quite popular form of media that we see. In fact, some magazines are making more money off the peo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Response to Demassification

Response to Demassification  By Piper Shiflet Demassification was a word I had never heard of until our recent discussion about the topic in class. We had covered mass communication in pervious weeks, but demassification was a new concept. The thought originally stuck in my head that demassification meant losing your mass audience in some way, but it wasn't, it was how you deal with losing your mass audience. I had to think about this for a long time, how exactly would I deal with losing a mass audience?  During this situation you would have to figure out how to gain your audience back, and this is seen everywhere, especially in social media, which I had realized as the definition was being told to me. You see demassification everywhere in this century, and that's why I was surprised that I had never heard of the term before. Demassification happens all the time, and I was oblivious. That's why I was so interested in this topic.  We then proceeded to learn about ...
Post a Comment
Read more