Our class is really close to being done with observing our news sources, and us just finishing our 7th data record I am starting to notice some patterns that I would like to share.
One thing I have noticed is the the Courier has a significantly larger number of stories then all the other news sources which is to be expected since it is a newspaper, so this didn't surprise me. But what did surprise me was the large amount of sports stories that the Courier has. Looking back at my data I noticed that only once out of the 7 issues that we have looked at has the sports story count not been in the double digits, also from the data my group has collected there has always been more sports stories than any other category. This surprised me because I don't understand how sports are really that newsworthy and because I don't think they really are, why would they take up so much space in the paper? But at the same time I get how a lot of people like to read about sports for entertainment.
Another thing that I have noticed is that there are not as many political stories as I thought there would be. Because it's an election year and the presidential election is fast approaching I would have guessed that there would be more stories about the candidates and the debates.
Lastly I have noticed that there are rarely any stories about war and diplomacy, not just from the courier journal but also from all of the other news sources we are observing. This caught my attention because aren't we technically in a war right now, and don't we have troops overseas fighting for our country? I don't understand why there aren't any stories about this because it's been going one since 2012 and I believe that it’s really is a pressing issue. This is breaking the element of inclusiveness because the sources and courier journal focus too much on one subject like crime and sports and not enough on another subject like war/diplomacy and the election.
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