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When looking at WLKY’s news website I find it rather astonishing that so many stories are not newsworthy. When i look at news I expect it be actual news that people care about. For the past week I’ve seen the same stories. One “ The 14 best halloween costumes”. Why should I need to know that? If I really wanted to know about costumes I would go to the costume store which tells me all my answers. I don’t need a news story telling me what they think are the best halloween costumes are.


I do understand that we do have slow news days, but that doesn’t mean put in terrible stories. We as journalist need to be more honest to ourselves now more than ever. We live in the Trump era where journalist are being more attacked and oppressed more than ever now. I don’t think this type of stuff should ever be posted.

I can say WLKY does have mostly relevant stories on their website. Everytime we have to go on the website and look at news stories the top story is always either and accident/disaster or crime. I think they do that to catch your attention. Then click on the story and hopefully you share so they can make money. Which is actually smart. When actually reading some of the stories they are actually very detailed and there are no missing parts of the elements or yardsticks. Which I find great, because too often do I see national news media breaking them left and right. You’d think it’d be better, since most people watch national news.

I would like to mention that WLKY does have a problem with which stories they cover. The numbers are really screwed. One day we’ll have  6 crime stories, but the next 2 or maybe three. I know that they have more stories it’s the matter of how many they want to put on any given day. Also, they never war/diplomacy or business ever. I can understand because it’s just local news, but this is a big issue in today's society.


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