Thursday, September 26, 2013

Media Critique 26 September

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/25/world/gallery/china-baby-pandas-chengdu/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2

The article above is on cnn.com's world homepage. This article violates the principle of making the important interesting. While this story might be of interest to some people, it isn't important to a large population and it isn't very significant. For example, the other stories on the world homepage are about Syria and the massacre in Kenya. These stories affect the whole world in a more significant way than artificially-bred pandas. Certainly, pandas are interesting, but are they important? Not really. A way to improve the problem is to have journalists take a more important story and put it on the front page.

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