Friday, September 12, 2014

Media Critique



There is a problem in the WLKY homepage. We see that they realized that people like to go on their local station for news and see who won the football game, whether it is a U of L or UK game. Now there isn't  a problem with a local news website having sports on the website, just not next to the news as if it is something like a crime or traffic update.

When someone goes to the WLKY homepage they can see the news that is late breaking. But they can also click the news tab and find a certain part of news. Under the news tab there is the high school playbook link; this will take the person to who won the latest high school game and the one before that.

The breaks the 9 principles of make the important interesting. This makes the interesting to local people (high school playbook) important to people. This makes it seem like it is important news that people need to know, whether it be to carry on their day or to plan for the time ahead. They can fix this by having their main top part with links have a sports one. This could have sports and the high school play book. This could also have the PGA tournament there for the time it was current.


Another one it breaks is the principle of inclusive. They seem to be blowing the sport section. Well more of sports in general. They don’t include or think about the people that don't like sports and have sites and shows for getting updates on the sports.





WLKY's homepage

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