Response to WDRB Homepage

  As I clicked onto the WDRB website and started scrolling through the top news stories, I started noticing a trend. Almost every other story was related to crime or about crime itself. EVERY OTHER STORY. Nine out of twenty-three stories on the front page of WDRB were about a crime. 

  One of the stories that particularly stood out to me was the title of, "Louisville woman reportedly hits step-father with broom handle in argument over Donald Trump." Not only does this defy the yardstick of journalism of newsworthiness, it also is not up to par with the yardstick of local relevance. The story may be local, but it is definitely not relevant; it a family argument does not affect the citizens of Louisville, so they don't need to read about it on their local news station website. 

  The story isn't newsworthy because it won't affect a large amount of people for a long time because it's a family argument that got a little out of hand, so people don't really need to know about it because it's not going to affect their personal lives for a long time

  Today I was really disappointed in WDRB. I was stunned to see that almost half of the. reading new story were about or related to crime: it's not good journalism, for they're not abiding by the elements and yardsticks of journalism.

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