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Week 14
(Nov. 29)
• Read . . . . assignment to come
• Blogtalk: Weekly comment on the readings, the WORD, or events about the mass media or the press.
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- Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff
- . . . veteran newsman, journalism professor, photographer, bogey golfer, dog whisperer, lumbering tennis player, boat lover, fisherman and purveyor of interesting stuff.
This comment is regarding the irrelevant issues that make it on the nightly news! I frankly, laughed out loud at how pathetic the news casters are to really think this should be news:
ReplyDeleteI was watching CBS and NBC news last night at about ten o-clock. Would you all like to know what topic made it on both channels? BARACK OBAMA GETTING STITCHES FROM PLAYING BASKETBALL. Really?! Totally irrelevant; THAT'S NOT NEWS! Unless he got stitches from running away from a terrorist attack or an assassin, I don't think it qualifies as legitimate news. What does everyone else think?
--Chelsea Ebeling, disappointed with current journalism.
Haha, ya well that's just like when George W. Bush choked on a pretzel watching sports, I think if it's concerning a U.S. President we'll find out about it.
ReplyDeleteI think it all depends on whats happening in current world news, that shows there was not really anything else to report on beside the the belly up economy, which we all know too well about and are sick of hearing about it.
ReplyDelete---Jake Kinghorn
I just don't get it. I mean, I would expect to hear about this on E!News or another show that is all about Hollywood gossip, but the news? Oh dear..
ReplyDelete--Chelsea Ebeling
Well, let's think back to the factors that constitute news values. You remember them (I hope!): timeliness, proximity, prominence, consequence, human interest.... Somebody help me here: Chelsea's understandable objections about whether this SHOULD be newsworthy aside, what DOES make the president's split lip newsworthy?
ReplyDeleteIt sells
ReplyDeleteReally just another name for human interest.
Erica Abbott
Well, he is the President of the United States so he is a very prominent individual. But I would have to agree with Erica, definitely a human interest piece. I fear that segments like that will become more and more frequent on the nightly news, which is defeating the main purpose of the press. Don't get me wrong, I'm nosy as all get out and LOVE to hear about what's going on in "celebrity's" lives, but that information should be saved for gossip news channels and left out of our main sources of real news.
ReplyDelete--Chelsea Ebeling