After spending a month watching WLKY's evening news, I've gotten a good feel of what it's like. On any given night about half of the stories will be crime filled and those stories will take up more time than anything else. Surprisingly, the data my group collected found that the crime stories take nearly as long as the weather and sports combined! Not only are the crime stories getting more air time then necessary, but they are also lacking newsworthiness.
One example of a crime story lacking newsworthiness was an article entitled, "Camm Evidence Shown to Media". In this article, the reporter had a field day over the latest details discovered in the David Camm trial. The problem regarding this story is that it isn't newsworthy. This is because it doesn't effect the the general public. This one case that so many obsess over is only truly effecting David Camm, his family and friends, the family and friends of the deceased, and the people involved in the trial. For the story to be newsworthy it needs to effect a large amount of people for a time to come.
While this is just one example of a horrendous crime story published by WLKY, there are many more, most just as bad as the one above. Because of the sheer quantity of crime stories WLKY publishes, I consider it to be among the worst local news stations in Louisville.
WLKY has an entire section of their website devoted to David Camm that can be found here.
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