Emma’s News Blog

When a tragedy like the Kroger shooting happens, almost every news organization is talking about it and updating everyone on the latest developments. The question is: is this a good or bad thing? I say it is a very good thing. When something horrible and tragic happens, everyone wants to know exactly what happened, when, where, who, why, and how. Everyone also has a different preferred media outlet. Some like CNN, some like WHAS, some like WLKY the best. Everyone will go to their preferred media outlet to find out the latest information. If every news outlet spends just a few moments on the tragedy and never revisits it, what does that say about the news organization itself? To spend a lot of time explaining what happened and to make sure the victims are known is very important. I am very glad that this is all over the news because it needs to be talked about. It needs to be talked about to the point where everyone can recite exactly what happened, because that means that it made a

KC Ciresi made a blog post about demassififcation. More specifically, why it happens. KC explains her concerns of how maybe some important information is only reaching niche audiences because of the unwillingness to learn about other opinions. This is a very unique point on the matter. I hadn't thought of it this way until KC pointed it out. It is a possibility that some things demassify into niche audiences because of either the fear of being different, or negative feedback because of an unpopular opinion. This is a very interesting reason to demassify. KC's example of a teen magazine showcasing mental health was very insightful. Parents wouldn't ever read the magazine because it's for teens, even though it has sophisticated and mature material. Sometimes demassificaation is for the best in these scenarios though, because the teen magazine can serve as a space just for teenagers-- an escape from parents and siblings. Sometimes is good to have just a niche au

On September 20th, Molly Gregory made a blog post about a cartoon that was seen as racist. Molly described the cartoon in an objective way, not pushing her own opinions on the picture until her response came. In Molly's response, she was civil and logical. She pointed out what kind of stereotypes were portrayed in the picture and also included the cartoon artist's excuse for the cartoon. Molly also explained why the stereotypes in the picture were harmful and why it reinforces a racist culture. To me, this picture is insensitive and just strange. I do not understand why the artist would ever think to draw the woman implied to be Naomi Osaka (A Haitian-Japanese woman) as a blonde white woman. Additionally, the caricature of Serena Williams is blatantly racist, with the comically large lips. The fact that Mark Knight just thinks the PC crowd is "too sensitive" is eye-rolling. Part of journalism is being fair and representative for everyone, and when the artist j

WHAS 11 News Broadcast on Tuesday at 5 PM contained a story about a new educational program for kids of low incomes five years old and under to learn new words before school begins. This story was well told because the news station had two interviews about the program. One interview was with a local mother, Susan Richardson, who participates in the program with her four year old daughter. The other interview was with   National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) Vice President of Education Joshua Cramer.  These sources are a very good choice. Susan Richardson is someone who is directly impacted by this program, as well as her daughter. She is an unbiased consumer of the program and is likely to give honest feedback and information about the program. In addition, Joshua Cramer is a good source because he is able to tell everyone what the mission of the program is at its core, as well as all the information you need to know about how to experience this program. He can also give st

There is a problem with the local news coverage. An extraordinarily longer amount of time is spent on reporting weather and sports rather than important, breaking news. I'm focusing on WHAS 11 for this issue. I had to hear from my peers at school that there was a man who was plotting a school shooting. There was not one word about it on the news all week. This is a problem. Plus, the multiple  weather segments on the show are always at least  two minutes long, while most news stories are not longer than a minute. There are always at least three weather segments, and about four to five at most. That adds up to six minutes of weather at the very least, and ten at most. This is one fifth to one t hird  of the whole show, not counting commercial time! Additionally, the sports. No less than ten minutes of sports were shown on the Sunday 6:30 WHAS 11 news. Thankfully, this is not every day, but on Sunday it's very prevalent. A news segment about a floor collapse at a party w

HEY! Did I catch your attention? Good. This blog is hot under the Hot/Cool binary model. Things that are hot require the consumer’s full attention to internalize. Some examples of this are books, movies, and blogs just like this one! These types of media must be given full attention to understand. If you are multitasking while reading a book, you will not understand what is going on and you will have to reread many sentences to understand. Things that are cool do not require the consumer’s full attention. Some examples of this are music, podcasts, and billboards. Billboards are meant to be seen for just a moment. All it takes is a quick glance and the idea come across just fine. Similarly, it’s very easy to turn on some music in the background and do something else. Imagine playing a video game without music. It would be very boring and almost unnerving to be doing tasks in complete silence. Music does not require full attention, so a player can easily continue to do tasks with