Wednesday, September 25, 2013


        First of all, it's frankly humiliating that Fox News would report on something as silly and unimportant as a man giving his car a funeral. Second of all, this article goes against at least three of the 9 principles and 7 yardsticks of journalism; making the important interesting, newsworthiness, and local relevance. The fact that a man gave his car a funeral will never affect anyone, nor does it have any relevance to the public at large. This article is also a prime example of making the interesting important, instead of the other way around like it should be. This story was not only unworthy of being on a major news website, but also being reported on at all.
        There's nothing that can be done to improve this story. But instead of reporting about the "funeral," perhaps instead they could have reported on the accident that "killed" the car. At least then the story would have been somewhat relevant.

1 comment:

  1. My parents watch Fox News (my mom even has a crush on Shepard Smith- don't tell her I said that) and I agree that sometimes Fox has some questionable moments of their reporting. Not only are they very obviously biased against the Democratic party, but they do discuss many pointless and unrelated stories when the news has been dry.

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