Overview of The Courier Journal

The Courier-Journal, the only print news source that our class followed, seemed to have done the best job. But how did its print stories match up with its online stories?
The Courier-Journal had a total of 325 local stories with 114 of those stories in print and 211 being online. The fact that there was so much more online can be kind of concerning to a certain extent, but if you count the fact that the website has more room for stories and the majority of the stories were fluff (we'll get to that later) then the Courier-Journal didn't do too horrible on keeping things proportionate. The Courier-Journal had a total of 194 national stories with 107 being print and 87 being online. It had a total of 49 international stories with 31 being print and 18 being online. With most of the stories being local, the Courier-Journal did a pretty good job at staying true to its local relevance. 
Now on to the categories~

• Accidents, Disasters- 6 total, 5 in print, 1 online 
• Politics, Government- 76 total, 34 in print, 42 online 
• Crime- 47 total, 29 in print, 18 online
• War, Diplomacy- 8 total, 8 in print, 0 online
• Business, Economy- 119 total, 67 in print, 52 online 
• Social Issues, Human Interest, Education- 127 total, 60 in print, 67 online 
• Health, Consumer, Environment- 54 total, 21 in print, 33 online 
• Celebrity, Fluff, Other- 122 total, 20 in print, 102 online

All the categories, except Celebrity, Fluff, Other, seemed to have a somewhat balance between the number of online and print stories, which is good. These categories also had a reasonable number of stories relating to their topics, for example, it is good that there were a lot of stories pertaining to economy (something that could affect the people) while there weren't nearly as many crime stories (something that people want to hear about and usually should, but usually doesn't affect them in any way besides implanting fear in their brains).

And then there's the fluff. While the number of fluff in print wasn't horrendously high for the number of times we studied the Courier-Journal, the number online was absolutely outrageous. One hundred and two fluff stories online; that was more than any of the other categories number of online stories! The Courier-Journal really needs to experience a monumental decrease in its number of online fluff stories if it wants its website to be just as good as its actual print news. 

Link to one of the many fluff stories

"T.V. News Terminology- Wait, that's a thing?" -Mikayla Hinton; A Class Response

So it's kind of obvious to determine, distinguish and see different (but repetitive) parts of a news show when you're watching them, but who would've thought that they actually had names and terminology to indicate their meaning?
When I found out that there were names that went a long with certain parts of news shows I was fascinated in a sense to where I was like "Oh okay this is cool, I never knew that, but now it makes sense." but I also felt pretty silly for not realizing that until our lecture.
Things that I noticed, repeated patterns that I saw, they all had names to match them and learning that was really cool to me. For example, I always thought it was kind of funny when a news anchor would say something a long the lines of "And now back to Bob in the studio." I always thought "What's the point of saying that? Why do they say something like that after almost every story?" Then I learned what it was; a toss. Finally, I was given a name to match the thing that I often wondered about! When Mr. Miller explained the importance of the toss and how it is used to let the viewer know that they were moving on to the next story a sudden realization came over me and I finally understood it. When I imagined what a news show would be like without tosses, I understood why they were necessary; without them, viewers would be confused on where a story ends and where another one starts and everything would be out of order and chaotic.
As he explained the importance and introduced names to things that I previously had noticed, I began to appreciate the whole idea of a terminology system and why these things were necessary to make a news show flow successfully. And as silly as it sounds, that was a relief to me to finally understand some things that I'd always wondered about.

The Advertisement Games; Class Response

I love to review my notes, both new and old, to find relationships and patterns between things we recently and previously studied to see how they are all connected. It intrigues me how things that can be so different can have a minor detail in common. One thing I noticed as I was looking through my notes was something that nearly every medium of journalism has in common; advertisements.

• With newspapers, advertisements ultimately led to the newspapers' lower pricing because ads were a source of income for the newspaper industry. Since the prices were lowered, this led to more newspapers being sold; exactly what the industry needed.
• With magazines, the advertisements are centered around what kind of magazine they are in and the interests of that magazine's particular niche audience. Nonetheless, this also helps the magazine industry make money.
• With radios, advertisements played an important role in its money-making aspect. Radios promoted and played all kinds of advertisements, which of course provided them with money, but radios were also able to promote themselves through advertisements. For example, a radio advertisement could say something like- "Do you like what you're hearing? If so come on down to Radio World today and you can buy yourself your own super amazing radio! You just have to get one!" This kind of self-promoting through advertisements helped the industry grow even more popular than it was.
• With movies, the preview advertisements for new movies that are coming out in the future and are shown before the beginning of a movie help make the industry money and if you think about it, movies (that plan to lead into or are apart of a movies series) are advertisements themselves; they get a viewer hooked and wanting to see the next movie, leading to more money and more money and more... And another thing that I had never realized until Mr. Miller said it in class was that movies just set themselves up to make more money; it can all start from a book that was then made into a movie, and since movies tend to be more popular and get more publicity, they can create even more opportunities to make money, such as making action figures and toys to go along with the movie, making merchandise such as t-shirts, posters, etc., and even making the movie into DVDs to eventually sell.
• With T.V., advertisements/commercials help make so much money for stations and channels. After all, it's kind of a universal fact that, to the average person, T.V. commercials are definitely not cheap. The variety of advertisements is also very diverse; you can see advertisements for thing such as toys, food, jewelry, cleaning supplies, dog food, and basically anything you can possibly think of that people either want or need. A very popular type of advertisement is those promoting political campaigns. Now a days if you're running for a political position and you don't have television advertisements, chances are you won't win. It's kind of fascinating, in my opinion, to see how a piece of technology can play such an important, vital role in something like politics.

I think it's very interesting to see that even over time as forms of technology begin to demassify, most of them seem to still hold on and survive in today's world, and since they all have advertisements in common, it makes me think that maybe the advertisements are the reason they're still here, for they do bring a source of income to the industries/mediums.

Response to Madeline's "One last update from 10-30-14"

To answer your question Madeline, yes I did enjoy your blog entries about the type of news that the Courier-Journal had on a specific day. As a fellow member of the Courier-Journal group, I will miss the small little arguments we had over what category a story would go in. *Insert crying emoji.* On a more serious note, I, as a Courier-Journal member, approve of your posts concerning the news that it produced and can verify that what was said in those entries was correct. YAY GO MADELINE!
On a totally unbiased note, I also have to agree with what Madeline said about how I feel like the Courier-Journal produced the best news. Most of the time it was consistent with its number of stories and usually had an even or close to even amount of stories in each category. I have to disagree with Madeline's excuse for T.V. news stations, though; in fact, I disagree with the whole idea of T.V. news stations even having an excuse of why they didn't match up to/perform as well as the Courier-Journal print newspaper. Although T.V. news stations have a set time in the day when they broadcast news, they have the advantage of breaking news. When a new, important story comes out they can immediately inform the public, while the newspaper cannot, and therefore they have an advantage over the Courier-Journal, so the fact the Courier-Journal performed better puts a sort of shame on the T.V. news stations.
Also Madeline, I really like your post titles, such as 'Way Back Wednesday', but the constant use can be repetitive and confusing.

Link to Madeline's post: http://madeline5sos.blogspot.com/2014/11/one-last-update-from-10-30-14.html?m=0

Response to Sylvia's "Class Response: TV, Too Much Influence?"

While I was reading Sylvia's response about the immense influence that T.V. has over its audience, I couldn't help but agree with everything that she said. I especially agree/like the part where she said "The question is whether this influence is a good thing or a bad thing."
To build on what Sylvia explained, I feel as if there is typically a negative stereotype that is associated with the influence of T.V. when really its influence can be both harmful and beneficial. As Sylvia illustrated with her fashion influence example, some things that T.V. can influence aren't all that bad; if people want to model what they see on T.V. by wearing the same clothes, then there isn't really any harm in that, as long as they don't think it's okay to walk around half-naked. T.V. can be influential in good ways by airing shows that make people want to take action, make a change, or do something good for themselves or other people. An example of this is the show "Pitbulls and Parolees", a show on Animal Planet that I used to watch a lot when I was little. The show is about a bunch of parolees who are given a second chance through a job (taking care of the dogs) and rescue pitbulls (a breed of dog who most people wouldn't even give a second glance at) and help them to where they are able to get loving homes. A show like this can inspire people to give humankind and animals a second chance at life and want to do something to help them.
Also as Sylvia said, "It's all in the way T.V.s influence is used." Whether they choose to use this influence in a bad or good way is up to their network, and therefore not all T.V. influence should be viewed as something that is only trying to cause evil. 

Check out Sylvia's post here: http://sylviasjournalism.blogspot.com/2014/11/class-response-tv-too-much-influence.html

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing -Newspapers, Radios, and Movies; A Response to Class Discussions

It seems that with every new form of technology, demassification is eventually inevitable. But one thing I've noticed from the lectures and from personal, real life experience is that even though they demassify, older forms of technology still manage to survive today in modern time.
So why do these forms of technology still exist today if most of their popularity seems to have disappeared? Because they all have unique aspects that people still tend to enjoy.

For newspapers it's because they are-

• Portable! People can carry them around and whip them out whenever they feel like getting their daily dosage of the news.
• Low-Tech! You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to read a newspaper.
• Cheap! They're only a few bucks and provide entertainment.
• Tradition! Chances are if your grandparents read the newspaper every morning it's because of tradition, and tradition is a repeated cycle.
• Physical objects! You can carry them with you and their stories aren't just fragments and pixel creations of the Internet.
•   Non-Linear! You can jump from story to story and don't have to follow a straight path like you would have to do on news website/app on your phone.

For radios it's because they are-

• Entertaining! When you're on a long car ride you can just turn on the radio and listen to music, a comedy talk show, a sports game, etc., and boom! Instant entertainment!
• Emotionally effective! Hearing someone's voice, whether it be the tragic tone or a jubilant, happy voice, can make you feel the same emotions.
• A group experience! People can gather around radios and witness/hear everything being said at the same time and together.

For movies it's because they provide-

• An overwhelming experience! This being self-explanatory, when you're at the movies you get an experience that is very different than watching something at home.
• Darkness! Being surrounded by darkness adds to the over-whelming, intense mood.
• 3-D! You get to witness movies in the third dimension, something most people can't do on their televisions at home.
• Surround-Sound! The rich, pure sound quality at movie theaters make it all the more enjoyable experience.
• Quiet surroundings with no distractions! This is how it goes most of the time, but these aspects make the experience more pleasant.
• Social experience! You can use going to the movies as an excuse to meet up with friends and have something to do.
• Cultural relevance! You obtain bragging rights for seeing the best movie of the year the first time it was publicly shown.

All these unique aspects are just a few examples of why these forms of technologies are still around. The fact that they all offer something different to their audience and continue to thrive on that measly little thread of hope is what I find to be really fascinating, and makes me wonder if something that demassifies can ever really disappear from existence. For example, look at MySpace; Facebook demassified MySpace, but MySpace is still brought up in conversations every now and then despite its substantial lack of popularity.

Television is Evil! A Response to Class Discussions

Recently in class we learned about the effects and impacts of many technological advancements from history. We learned about the impacts from radios, movies, and television. What I found to be the most interesting part of all of these lessons was seeing how these three things were all connected in a way.
I've always been aware of the fact that when a newer, bigger, better, etc product or technological advancement comes along that its popularity usually replaces that of an older invention's popularity, but I never knew the true depth at which these things could be connected until we had completed all the lectures.
One thing that I noticed is that T.V.s are extremely evil. Okay, I'm kidding, but when you look at what I said in a metaphorical sense, they kind of are, for one thing that I learned was that T.V.s, radios, and movies are all connected in which T.V.s demassified the other two and rid them of the immense popularity that they had at one time.
Television demassified radios in which all the talent that came from radios left and went to T.V.s; with television, celebrities could have an image to match their voice/talent, and this was more appealing to audiences and the celebrities themselves than only having a voice to match the talent on radios.
Television demassified movies in the same way as radios; all the talent that came from radios left and went to T.V.s. Television also demassified movies in which with television, all the entertainment and talent is easily accessible, in your home, and doesn't require any effort to physically go out and enjoy/view. On the other hand, movies required for people to get up, get ready, and have to find a way of transportation to go to/get to the movie theater. With this being said, the lazy aspect that came with having a television played another role in its demassification of movies.
This connection of the demassification and the power that television had over other forms of technology is just very intriguing to me, and though we have not had the lecture over the internet yet, I feel as if that we will learn that the internet might have had the same effect on television.. 

The Only Real U.S. Outbreak of Ebola Is In The News

In our Journalism class we have been following multiple news sources (WAVE, WHAS, WLKY, WDRB, and The Courier-Journal) for over four weeks to see how many/what kind of stories they produce on a daily basis.
Most of these sources met at least some of the Nine Principles of Journalism and Seven Yardsticks of Journalism, but the number of stories that had little or no local relevance was a lot higher than it should have been.
One of the contributing factors to that lack of local relevance was the influx of Ebola stories in the news. With every day of news analysis, it was rare to not find at least one story that involved the new, deadly disease.
In the month of October alone (only on the days that we studied these news sources), the number of headlines and online headlines  (not including additional stories) that involved Ebola was ten.The number of additional stories from the news sources about Ebola was also abundant; on October 16th, 2014 The Courier-Journal (a local, Louisville newspaper) had a total of nine health stories, all of which were on a national or international level! This was the highest number of health stories out of all the news sources and out of all the days that were spent studying them.  
In fact, the number of Ebola stories every day is almost outrageous and completely unnecessary; after all, exactly how many people have been infected, let alone died in the United States from Ebola? According to the CDC, there have only been four cases of Ebola in the United States, with only one case resulting in death. With these known statistics, the number of stories that are being produced about Ebola doesn't match up with the real level of worry United States citizens should be feeling. One can even assume that these news sources are beefing up the threat of Ebola and using that as a way to produce easy and lazy stories, because by doing so they can make the readers believe there is an immediate threat, which ultimately gives these stories a lot of viewers because people always want to read about something that can potentially hurt, threaten, or affect them in any way. This also leads to more production of these unnecessary Ebola stories, because as long as the number of viewers remains consistent, the news sources will continue to make them. In reality, at this given time, there really isn't an immediate threat, especially not to the areas in which these specific local news stations cover, and therefore they are not meeting the journalistic yardstick of local relevance and making the whole ordeal on Ebola seem more serious than it actually is. 

Link to Courier-Journal Ebola Headline Story on 10-10-14

Response to Caroline B's Class Discussion titled "{Whostory?}"

Response to Caroline B's "{Whostory?}"

Let me just start off by saying I absolutely love her title. It is so creative and goes a long well with the theme and the message she is talking about in her blog post.

I also want to say that I agree with everything she said; it does seem kind of crazy that in school we are only being taught almost half of the truth when it comes to some things, like in history. For example, I always believed that Gutenberg had invented the printing press, and when I found out that he actually didn't and only really helped make an advanced version, I felt like I had been cheated. Like Caroline said, the school system just decided it would put in the education curriculum what it viewed as the most relevant, but that doesn't mean that it's the truth. I also agree with what she said about how you can't particularly do this at all as a journalist because when you are writing a news story you can't just tell half of the truth; everything has to be 100% true and factual and have reliable sources that provides evidence. In journalism we can't have those mysteries that exist in history about who created what, who said what, and so on. I am also in agreement with what she said about how some countries have a negative reputation with them when in reality (most of the time) the people to blame and the people who gave the country their bad reputation are people who are in power; it's not always the citizens' fault.

Go check out Caroline's awesome blog post by clicking on this link: http://letsbecriticalok.blogspot.com/2014/09/whostory.html

Binary Models

Binary Models: Class Discussion Response #4

There are four different binary models-

1. Hot-Cool- The amount of attention the mass communication requires.

Hot- Requires audience's full attention. In order to fully understand it, you have to completely focus on it.

Examples: Print Books, Audio Books

Cold- Does NOT require full attention. 

Examples: Music, Television, Movies; Can have any of these three things going on in the background and to understand it you don't have pay full attention; Can multi-task.

2. Elitist-Populist

Elitist- Concerned with it's message; it's message is it's number one priority, no matter it's audience size.

Examples: Slashdot, The Nation, PBS

Populist- Concerned about it's popularity; will post/talk about anything that it thinks will expand it's audience and make it more popular.

Examples: Buzzfeed, People, ABC

3. Content-Distribution

Content- Only produces it's own content; makes it's content.

Examples: Sony, Warner Bros, HBO

Distribution- Distributes and produces content to people and audiences.

Examples: iTunes, Amazon, Netflix

4. Information-Entertainment

Information- Stories are more information based; to inform.

Entertainment- Stories are meant to be entertaining to read; to entertain.

There is an "in between" version of this binary model called "Infotainment" in which people try to make the entertaining informational, but it always leans more towards the "entertaining" side.

Example: ABC News

I found this lecture to be the most interesting out of all of the lectures we've had because I liked learning about the contrasting forms of communication and I felt like I could relate some every day activities to some of these binary models. For example, I always knew that I could never multi-task while reading a book and that it required my full attention, but I never knew that it can be described as a model that is used in communication (the hot medium from the Hot-Cool binary model). I think it's pretty cool how things that you never really think twice about on a daily basis can have a more complex meaning to them and belong to models that you might have never guessed they belonged to.

Monopolies and Cartel

Monopolies and Cartel: Class Discussion Response #3

There are two types of monopolies:

1. Horizontal Monopoly- One company owns every business in one stage in a production process. 

Example- (Movie production process) One company owns every distributing business (such as Amazon).

This type of monopoly has NO competition in it's area of a production process.

It is threatening in which can change whatever it wants to change and can rid of freedom of expression because it has total control.

*THIS TYPE OF MONOPOLY IS ILLEGAL*

2. Vertical Monopoly- One company owns one of every stage in a production process.

Example- (Movie production process) One company owns one business that makes the movie, one business that processes the movies, one business that distributes the movies, and one business that gives the people/public access to the movies. 

This monopoly can still have competition with other companies and businesses.

*THIS TYPE OF MONOPOLY IS LEGAL*

Cartel- When companies work together to raise prices above the market price to make/force everyone to pay the same, above-market, high price.

Example- All the gas stations in a city decide to all raise their gas prices to $3.99 to get more money even though the market price is only $3.55, and in every other city the price is below or the same value as the market price.

*THIS IS ILLEGAL*

I'm going to be honest; before we had this discussion I wasn't entirely sure I knew what a monopoly was, and I definitely wasn't aware that there were different types of monopolies. In fact, the only place I'd really heard about a monopoly was from the board game "Monopoly". I also didn't know what cartel was. But now that I do know, I definitely can see the connection. Just like in the board game, when someone has total control with a monopoly it can be a disaster for everyone else (in the board game, harmful to the other players: in real life, harmful to other companies) and can lead to total obliteration (in the board game, obliterating by losing the game: in real life, obliterating by harming the economy or causing other businesses to go bankrupt). 

In my opinion, although monopolies can help a certain company make more money, I think they are ultimately harmful and can hurt our economy more than help.

Magazines

Magazines: Class Discussion Response #2

• Magazines were invented by Benjamin Franklin, who made the first magazine, General Magazine.
• Magazines were the 1st national medium and national publications with national advertising, a national audience, and the creation of a national identity.
• National advertising was great for business.
• People became famous from their publications in magazines.
• Magazines are cheaper than books.
• They create something for everyone to talk about; rich, middle-class, and some poor alike read magazines.
• Magazines spread literacy all across the world as more and more people began to read them.
• Magazines were the first to do long-form, investigative journalism.
• They were the first to have personality profiles.
• First to have photojournalism.

All these points above and all the effects that have come from magazines are some that I would have never thought about before we had this lesson. I had always thought of magazines as a form of entertainment, but I learned from this lesson that at one time magazines focused more on elitist things instead of populist things. The fact that magazines have helped/benefited and continue to do so for our country in so many ways, from spreading literacy to broadening the field of journalism, simply amazes me. In fact, I didn't even know that magazines were beneficial until we had this lesson.

The Types and Process of Communication

Class Discussion Response #1

There are 3 types of communications-

• Mass Communication- sharing ideas with a mass audience (more than one person) but not being able to get instant, immediate feedback. 

Examples: Magazine, Television, Radio, Social Media, Billboard, etc.

• Group Communication- sharing ideas with a mass audience or group of people; one person talking to a bunch of people. Can get immediate feedback from audience; works as a 2-way form of communication. 

• Individual Communication- interactive; the sharing of ideas between two people.

Process-

1. Stimulus- starting point; "my idea"
2. Encoding- taking an idea and putting it in a symbolic form to where people can understand it. E.x. typing a recipe in a word document.
3. Transmission- sharing the idea with the public/making it available for people to see. E.x. uploading the recipe to a blog.
4. Decoding- when the public encounters the idea/communication. E.x. reading the recipe on the blog using your phone.
5. Internalization- remembering the idea; "your idea"

Impediments- external

• Semantic Noise- A problem/interference with encoding. E.x. Word Document crashes in the middle of typing a book and all content is erased.
• Channel Noise- Bad transmission. E.x. A book gets shipped to the wrong house.
• Environmental Noise- A problem with decoding; something around you is interfering with your ability to decode an idea. E.x. You can't focus on decoding a book because your mom is vacuuming and it is distracting you.

Filters- 

• Physical- Can prevent people from internalizing an idea; usually happens because there are physical features preventing the internalization.
• Psychological- Prevention from thoughts.
• Informational- Learning barriers. E.x. not knowing a language.

Before this lesson I had no idea how complicated the whole idea of communication and it's process is. It's pretty wild to learn that something that can seem so simple in the beginning is actually a lot more complex than it seems.

Response to Cicada Hoyt's Article Critique

Response to Cicada's Media Critique

As I was reading through Cicada Hoyt's media critique, I couldn't help but shake my head in agreement as I read line after line of her work. All of her main points excellently portrayed how the article she decided to critique violated the Nine Principles and Seven Yardsticks of Journalism. 

Her explanations were very analytic and helped me understand why certain aspects of the article violated the Nine Principles and Seven Yardsticks; for example, instead of just saying something as vague as "the article violates the explanation yardstick", she actually explained how there was a violation. She did this by using evidence that she discovered and collected, such as saying-

"... the reporter only said what happened and not why it happened. For example, he could've explained about what had happened with the shooting and after the shooting... Perhaps if the reporters reported the facts they wouldn't have been so quick to judge..."

This short breakdown of what she explained was used to support the idea that the article was violating the Explanation Yardstick, and overall, this allowed for me to better understand her critique and for me to understand her views on the topic. 

Another thing that I was impressed with was the use of photos as a visual aid to show violations. Cicada used a picture of police aiming weapons at a man who had his arms in surrender as a way to show the violation of the 5th Principle (Watchdog), which supported her explanation of how instead of keeping an eye on the people with power (in this case, the police) the article was directed to keeping the attention/keeping an eye on the citizens of Ferguson (in this case, the people who don't necessarily have power).

I also think it's pretty great that she took on the daunting task of finding violations in an article with a very controversial, commonly talked about (at the time) topic.

I did notice one little error; there was a lot of usage of first person words like "I" and a few opinions here in there in the article, which shouldn't really be used in media critiques (it should be in 3rd person), but nonetheless, nothing can distract from the fact that her critique was very factual, relevant, understandable, and overall superb.

Go check out her media critique by clicking on the following link:  http://cadylandia.blogspot.com/2014/09/article-critique-ferguson-shooting.html

Picture: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8379/8672563295_9c270cbc79_b.jpg

Media Critique

Just Another Post About WDRB's Irrelevance

A Media Critique by Mikayla Hinton

Almost every single news website has a section on the home page that is solely dedicated to displaying the most popular stories from that day, week or even month. With this being said, popular stories, a.k.a the stories that are being talked about the most, should be those that fit well with the standards of the Nine Core Principles and the Seven Basic Yardsticks of Journalism.

Well, WDRB has a different idea when it comes to this concept.

On WDRB's website under a heading that says "Most Popular Stories" is a link that leads to a story that does not technically deserve to be listed under this title. The story is called "Miss America 2015 hammered on social media for playing a red cup". 

Miss America 2015 Winner performing her talent.

The whole idea of this story being referred to as 'popular' seems improper for the following reasons:

1. The story violates the principle "Make the important interesting". An important story is a story that talks about or explains something that could potentially or immediately affect a group of people in a short amount of time or long period of time, etc. This story is basically the complete opposite; it's purpose is to try to entertain with interesting aspects more than to inform its audience. This story is like the "backwards version" of this principle; it is trying to "make the interesting important". It might seem fun, entertaining or interesting to some people to read about a bunch of criticism that the new Miss America is receiving from her chosen talent, but it isn't important at all; a bunch of people's lives aren't going to possibly change over the course of time in any way just from reading and knowing about this story. And although this story may engage it's audience, it does not provide any enlightenment; when people read this magazine they aren't reassured by anything.

2.    This story violates the yardstick "Newsworthiness". For a story to be considered newsworthy it should have a core story topic, and have a lasting and widespread effect on diverse and mass audiences (just like with the above principle). This story is not considered to be newsworthy because the story topic is not core and it will not last in the media for a long time. By next week this story more than likely will have been completely forgotten; no one will remember it because it doesn't leave an excellent impact on it's audience and because now that the race for the next Miss America is over, the media production of stories about the Miss America ordeal will come to an end. This ultimately means that the audience of this story will decline, which further proves how this story will not be around much longer.

3. This story violates the yardstick "Local relevance". Local relevance means that most of the stories being produced are taking place in the area that the journalism team, news media team, etc., works in and how the stories directly concern that area. This story is about a national event, the Miss America Pageant, and although it is a national ordeal, it doesn't directly affect the region in which WDRB works in in any way. The pageant didn't take place in, help or benefit, or have anything to do with the region in which WDRB reports on, which therefore shows how this story is an example of local irrelevance. 

All in all, this story from WDRB is not a good example of a journalistic story, but something could be done to help it meet at least one of the standards that it violated. There isn't a big option range in which one can change this story to help it comply with the principle of making the important interesting or the yardstick of newsworthiness, because it's being portrayed as a more entertaining story, but  the standard of local relevance could be met with a little revising. For example, instead of just focusing on the winner and how people are critiquing her choice of talent, WDRB could extend the story by interviewing or writing stories about the representatives in the pageant for Kentucky and Indiana and their experience in the competition. This would at least add a little local relevancy, for those two women are actually from the areas that WDRB covers.

Picture from: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/miss-america-2015-miss-new-york-kira-kazantsev-2014149