Asthmatic Sea Otter Inhaler Use (Media Critique)

"Asthmatic Sea Otter Learns to Use Inhaler"

Alison Morrow - KING-TV

Alison Morrow did not do a very good job with this story. Not only was it written poorly but in no way whatsoever is this story newsworthy. Based on rules of journalism, a journalists job is to make the important interesting and not the interesting important. This writer attempted to make the story that seemed interesting, important. An important piece of news would be something such as a new world leader being elected or a war started with another country. A sea otter learning to use an inhaler seems interesting and we feel almost sympathetic for this otter, but it is used as a filler. By a filler  this means, it is used as a news story for other pieces of news that currently aren't there. Alison can describe a good story, but really focused on making a story important and by gathering information which wasn't relevant to people in general or affecting them in any way. Information such as people discussing different things about this otter were gathered but didn't change any ones life. Therefore this story was not newsworthy. The interesting made an attempt to become important.

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