While KOAM and KODE led their newscasts with the DUI arrest of Pittsburg State University football coach Chuck Broyles on a charge of driving under the influence, KSNF led with three stories about the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
Those in charge determined that viewers would be more interested in hearing residents talk about shopping, about beginning the day at midnight at Toys R Us, or about the reopening of a kiosk at Northpark Mall.
Finally, just before the end of the news segment, anchor Jim Jackson noted "shocking news from an area university," but did not tell viewers which area university (most of us are accustomed to all of the shocking news coming from Missouri Southern State University) and told viewers they would find out about it during the sports segment.
Of course, KSN is also the home of the Chuck Broyles Show.
What's your point? The story SHOULD be reported during the sports segment. Otherwise it's not newsworthy at all. Unless of course you want a newscast filled with tales of DUI from every Tom, Dick and Harry out there.
ReplyDeleteThat might be part of the problem anon 11:56. Darn near every Tom Dick and Harry has a tale of DUI.
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