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Snow News Day

Filed under: Uncategorized — smassa1 at 3:16 pm on Sunday, February 7, 2010  Tagged , , ,

I was watching all of the snow storm coverage Saturday morning when I noticed that Channel 4 News covered the story in a different way.  While the rest of the news stations were just stating the facts such as how many inches it has snowed and when it will stop, Channel 4 News took on […]

4.2 News Values 1: Homework

Filed under: Uncategorized — smassa1 at 11:42 pm on Wednesday, February 3, 2010

I used the article, “Jury Recommends Death for 69-Year-Old Grandmother” 1.  In this article the news values that are present are: timeliness, proximity and conflict.  Timeliness is used because this article is written directly after the news happened.  Proximity is another news value because the story is being written in the area which this event […]

Bye Bye Arenas

Filed under: Uncategorized — smassa1 at 12:24 am on Tuesday, February 2, 2010  Tagged , ,

Two years went by as Gilbert Arenas was only able to watch his team, the Washington Wizards, struggle mightily on the basketball court as he went through a rehabilitation process to fix his surgically repaired knee.  Now, after finally being cleared to play basketball again, Arenas finds himself in another court…the judicial court. Arenas, once […]

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