Assignment #12

While watching the channel 7 news, some of the stories that were covered were the Pope visiting the nations capital, the laptop that was stolen from Buff State containing important information, the arrival of FBI agents to the scene of the abduction of the 12 year old girl in North Tonawanda, and channel 7 sports teaming up with Time Warner to offer more exposure for local high school and college sports teams. These were the major stories that were shown on the news. When I picked up the newspaper and looked at the front page, only one of these stories was shown. There was an article about the Pope visiting Washington D.C., but none of the other stories that were addressed on the news were on the front page of the paper. On the front page of the paper there was an article about the presidential debate in Philadelphia, an article about Mexican restaurants being raided in an alien sweep and there was also a picture of the Virginia Tech tribute that was held on Wednesday.

I think that it’s surprising that the stories that are on the front page of the newspaper weren’t the top stories addressed on channel 7’s news broadcast. I would have thought that Channel 7 would cover the topics on the front page then move on to other topics. It seemed to me that the news only covered the smaller topics. Instead of covering the Presidential debate in Philadelphia, they covered smaller stories such as a girl being shot and other things that aren’t unusual to hear on the news. I think that the news should have addressed less of the small topics and more of the large topics. If I watch the news I would rather watch stories on large issues like the Pope and the Presidential debate and the Buff State laptop. There could be more in depth coverage of these topics if they didn’t waste their time on a shooting on the West side. There are shootings everyday in Buffalo, and its no new news to me that they happen, so I don’t think they should get much television exposure. It’s surprising to see that there was no coverage of the presidential candidates on the channel 7 news. As we get closer and closer to knowing whom the presidential candidates will be, you would think the news would have more coverage. I was also surprised to see that there wasn’t anything about Time Warner and Channel 7 news offering exposure for local sports teams. This is important, because many people feel that Buffalo needs to increase the high school sports exposure, because as of right now it is very minimal. The reason why some of these topics aren’t in the paper is that they only print a morning edition, so events that happen in the early morning and day wont get into the paper until the next day.