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As I was browsing through various news sources I noticed that WHAS11, WLKY, and WDRB all have the same lead story: casualties verified at Pittsburgh synagogue. At first, I was confused as to why they were all the same, then I realized that it was breaking news, so it made more sense as to why the story was on the front page of the websites. But when I clicked on the stories they all give you the same information. They tell you that there were injuries at a synagogue, and quote tweets from the president and other Pittsburgh officials. It’s unnecessary for 3 local news sources to have the same story with the same information. It’s different if the news source had a different approach to the story, like tying it into the gun violence issue, but simply stating the same information on three different websites is useless. In my opinion, I think news stories need to have more variety in that when a popular story is reported on, there is different way to share the story than just reporting wh

 In Emma's blog post , she noted how WHAS11 spent the majority of their 6:30 pm Sunday evening news program (10/21/18) on sports, instead of important news stories. As I read her blog post, it became clear to me that I was not as upset about the amount of sports stories as she was. She mentions how the news does not normally spend a lot of time on sports, but it’s important to remember that this was a Sunday evening news airing. It’s natural for there to be more sports stories on a Sunday than a normal weeknight because the weekend is when the games occur so the news is recapping the outcomes. It’s also important to consider that sports are important to Louisville because of the University of Louisville football and basketball, Louisville City FC, and the Louisville Bats. A big part of our community is the sports atmosphere so, news organizations talk about sports because they know that is what our community is interested in.

    As we began talking about the history of newspapers I never realized how long newspapers have been around. You see the first multiple page newspaper in the mid-1500s and they are still here 400 years later. It never occurred to me just how old newspapers actually are and why we still have them with today's access to technology. I believe that a big reason why newspapers are still present today is that of the elderly population. In the early 1900s people got their news from a paper and have continued to do that today. I know my grandparents( who are 80 and above) are subscribed to a newspaper, but my family is not, and we get our news digitally or on television. Another example of why the elderly population keeps newspaper companies in business is because of the low tech. It's much simpler (and cheaper) to open up a newspaper and read it than, trying to turn on a television or find it on a phone, hence appealing to the older population.