Today in my Journalism and Society class, my professor brought up an interesting point about broadcast television and the stories they cover. What should be considered news worthy? Is a story about an old lady's Jesus statue being held hostage actually worthy of being nationally televised? Or do they simply exploit this little old lady in order to entertain their audience?
While I was sitting there in class, I thought about another clip I had seen a few weeks back. It was about a supposed Leprechaun sighting in Alabama. That's right...a leprechaun. Do you really think the TV station felt that people needed to know about this alleged sighting? Or were they only trying to entertain their viewers?
There's no way this story is news worthy. The TV station covered the Leprechaun sighting just to get a laugh out of their audience and it worked. Well, I don't know that for sure but I can say that my friends and I thought it was hilarious.
I must be off to a meeting for The Elitist Magazine (More details about the magazine will come sometime in the future.)
Cheers big ears
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