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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.


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