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5 years ago
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
So what?
I'm sure that all journalism students have been asked that question by a journalism professor sometime during their college career. You write a story, a story you think is pretty well written and thorough and your professor edits it and writes/says, SO WHAT? I find this pretty interesting because so what is a subjective question. What is newsworthy to you may not be to me. There are spot news stories that have an obvious answer to the question and other stories, particularly feature stories, that have different news value to different people. We discussed in class that when people pick stories they consider newsworthy, they pick them because of certain past experiences they had with the subject that is being reported. So in a sense every story is newsworthy to someone. Many times newspapers and magazines tend to report on the same subjects like the economy and the election, often times without variation in the stories published. Journalists should try to add more variety to the news they report on. More variety means more readers and more readers mean more revenue.
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I was thinking this myself. When we did the exercise in class I noticed that we picked multiple stories about the economy and politics--hard news. But not everyone who picks up a paper wants to constantly read about the state of the economy. While we should all be informed about the economy, it is nice to read some news that has a more positive note, or drags us away from the same thing we read everyday. More diversity within papers does make them more interesting.
What I think is interesting is that we use subjective reasoning in an industry that is supposed to be free of subjective opinion. How do we know that what we feel is the most important element of a story is actually the most important? After all, don't we have an attachment to the story after reporting on it? How do we know that our judgment clear?
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