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Today, I chose to respond to a story that WDRB decided to post on their news tab on their website. One of the first things that I noticed about the story was "Trigg County"; Trigg County is not all that close to Louisville, and last time I checked, WDRB was a Louisville news station. The story was about a man making a turn in his car and then going off of the road, hitting a tree, and passing away at the scene. Because this happened in Trigg County, a county that is almost 200 miles away from Louisville, this story breaks the yardstick of local relevance. It may be in Kentucky, but it doesn't have any relevance or impact on the people in Louisville, and this is where the story was posted because it was on WDRB. I'm finding that WDRB does this a lot; they find accident or crime stories that take place really far away, then they include it on their news website.
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