Byron, TV News: What Local Stations Don't Want You to Know

Fire Pretty, News Bad
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JosieRush/2009/08/fire_pretty_news_bad_1.html

Unanchored
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JosieRush/2009/08/unanchored_things_you_never_kn.html

Bleeding Leads to Major Turn-offs

Broadcast Journalism = A joke? Affirmative.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaKrehlik/2009/08/broadcast_journalism_a_joke_af.html

Stop toying with my emotions

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/08/stop_toying_with_my_emotions.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/08/sally_wiggin_deserves_an_oscar.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/08/no_he_diint.html

Is the news a beauty contest or just discriminating?

Stop Talking and Tell Us Something
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JosieRush/2009/08/stop_talking_and_tell_us_somet.html

How do I look?: Journalism close up
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/08/how_do_i_look_journalism_close.html

Raw Emotion Means Lack Of Respect

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichelleTantlinger/2009/08/raw_emotion_means_lack_of_resp.html

In Defense of Television Journalism

Think we have been bashing TV Journalism too much? Read on...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2009/08/in_defense_of_television_journ_1.html

It's Worse Than It Seems

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/08/its_worse_than_it_seems.html

FYI, the link back to this site isn't working correctly. I tried fixing it, but it didn't work. Both links lead to the Byron essay. The easiest way to get back here is to just hit the back button.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaKrehlik/2009/08/prone_to_visual_aid.html

After reading these articles, I thought about when I would watch the news and how the anchors' moods would completely change when switching stories. It's just unrealistic for a human being to go from talking about a disturbing story to a story about a local fair and acting happy. As the articles pointed out, these anchors really are acting which is sad because communities deserve to be informed without having their emotions played with. This may seem redundant, but it's wrong for these reporters to ask questions that prvoke a desired emotion. That is what the movie industry is for. News is becoming, well has become, a money-making business, rather than respectable journalists covering real news and informing the community without worrying about TV ratings. I understand that everyone needs to make money in order to survive in this world, but businesses need to remember why they're there in the first place, which is to cover the news for their viewers. It's unfortunate that our news stations are becoming more like tv shows or movies that are intended to grab and keep our attention. For example, when my mom watches the news, I can't even talk to her. She's so glued to the television and tells me to "shh" because she wants to hear it, when sometimes they're not even covering the story; my mom is just anxious for when they will actually talk about the story, and is just one of the many viewers who have inevitably fallen for this strategy.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/08/seeing_is_believing_or_should.html

Byron's Stories
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeganSeigh/2009/08/byron_bringing_news.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2009/08/drama_drama_drama.html

After reading this select articles. I came to the conclusion that what if he is right? Or what if he isn't? It really bothered me to think that some of the things that me and friends as veiwers watch for on the news we get grabed into the basic veiws of the reporters, and what they tell us that we do not really think about how it affects the nation or our own commmunity. The factors of which this journalist targeted on such as the news casters sitting closer together and the poise they must have is a big thing to. I mean people look for that. It is like they are famous; so I agree with him on that. I thought the readings were a bit harsh it the essences that I would like to know his perspective on how he would fix certain things. Due to his reactions and statements. I think these readings gave you a bigger perspective as well on what to understand and how to interpret the news all around.

I don't completely agree...

"That's why TV news shows are filled with bloody crime, fires and accidents, suspects being paraded down sidewalks by cooperative prosecutors, teary-eyed victims, cute kids and animals, and small street protests photographed so they look bigger than they are. The pictures will carry the story."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AshleyPascoe/2009/09/i-i_was_told_that-that_i-if_i.html