News shows

WLKY

     For the second six weeks my journalism teacher made us watch the local news and write a critique on it. My station wasWLKY and their show needed a lot of improvement. 

     Out of a 30 minute news show only half of that time was actually used to cover news. About 10 minutes of the show was used on the weather and the other 5 to 8 minutes was sports and commercials. They should have spent less time on things that aren't very important and more time on news stories that actually matter. 

     Another thing that WLKY needs to work on is the contents of their story. In the month of October alone 52% of their news stories were crime. I agree that crime needs to be covered but they were reporting on stories that had no effect on Louisville or they kept on covering the same crime for days. For example they covered a trial in Indiana for about two weeks and after it was over they still found a way make a lead story out of it. They try to make the interesting important and not the other way around.