Been There, Read That

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 what happened, and instead going into why it matters.

WDRB's story
WLKY's story
WHAS11's story

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