Wednesday, October 10, 2012

H-Town Crimes.. when will they reach the end of the line

This new post has to do with this weeks blog assignment....CENSORSHIP. 


The local Television news station that I am using is LOCAL 2 (aka channel 2, since tuesday I have been looking and watching 4 major news stories. They are the following ( they come along with the url's, for more infor mation simply click on it) 

MONDAY RESEARCH 
*"TEEN CLEARED IN WRECK THAT KILLED FIREFIGHTER" 
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Teen-cleared-in-wreck-that-killed-firefighter/-/1735978/16921732/-/trkwwcz/-/index.html
*"RAT INFESTATION SCARES FAMILIES"      
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Rat-infestation-scares-families/-/1735978/16920036/-/xoo8wez/-/index.html
TUESDAY RESEARCH 
*"TEEN FINDS NOTE BOOKS IN SEALED IPAD BOX" 
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Teen-finds-notebooks-in-sealed-iPad-box/-/1735978/16936976/-/146oyop/-/index.html
*DA'S OFFICE: "JAILER RAPES GIRL INSIDE JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER" 
http://www.click2houston.com/news/DA-s-office-Jailer-rapes-girl-inside-juvenile-justice-center/-/1735978/16937246/-/nyrcxvz/-/index.html

Summary:
* The first story- Talks about how a 17 year old was accused of manslaughter toward a firefighter,in a car crash, and the galveston police told lies like for ex: That he failed his blood alchohol test.
The second  story- Talks about a mother who his scared to live in her home because rats live there, and her apartment manager has done nothing to help her or her neighbor hood with the rat problem
The third story- There was a person a t walmart who sold this young girls mother an ipad box with no ipad in it but a ton of notecards, at walmart.
The last story- not much info, but it is a bout a man who tried to rape a girl inside prison

Censorship Questions: i thhink that the news people in their community like to search for crimes,threats, or dilemmas in other peoples lives (as you can clearly see, they are all about crimes, which is in their nature). The story are not mentioned the next day, so no they are not covered acrooss the spectrum, but are on the same topic though (crimes). I think that there is some diversity even though it is about basically the same topic, the news people interview diff. people from diff. cultures and the stories are diff. like one is about a girl ruined birthday and another is about rats invading someone elses home. I honestly think that the most irrelevant stories are the rape one and the rat one. The relevant ones are the IPAD and THE WRECK DEATH, the reason is because I think people can relate to more because there have been times where people have stolen fromm you and how there are car accidents like everyday. I think news stories are chosing by media outlets by things that can affect us a very bad way and they want to attract the aucdience attention by this and so this is how it is chosen.

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1 comment:

  1. The last story was cray cray nasty man! Trying to rap little girl in prison unacceptable. What has the world come to?

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