Almost .. but not quite Tyler.

             In response to Tyler's post on Relevant Matters, Newsworthiness-News Media Critique (Instructionmanual18.blogspot.com), he's almost gotten it down but I believe he seems to have overlooked what I see to be a major point. Tyler made some excellent points on news organizations failing to feature relevant, newsworthy news. He rightly thought to question the usage of an article on a white, female cop in Texas that murdered a black neighbor in his own home due to it's coverage on supposedly national media sources such as Fox and CNN. "There's really no reason why Fox News needs to cover a fatal police shooting in Dallas, Texas."he says.

           

            To further elaborate he made claims on how a story such as the one above should be covered on a local level due to a lack of influence on people around the country. It broke some of the basic rules of journalism we discussed in class. It wasn't gripping and it wasn't relevant, yet it was featured on articles at a national level regardless.

             However, he looked over the deeper meaning of the story. In class we also discussed how some stories thought seemingly irrelevant (people being shot in our country is in no way new news) can actually act of fuel for larger national and sometimes international controversial issues. At an outside look, oh look a man was shot in Texas, the story looks insignificant, but the context is what brought it forward. A WHITE, female COP in Texas shot a BLACK man in his own home on the claim that she believed she was in her own apartment and he was an intruder. Is police brutality and racism not a national topic? It is and that is what makes this case an important contributor to the ongoing controversy. Sometimes you need to look at the bigger picture.