Man charged with mailing HIV-tainted blood to President Obama
This is good news because out of the forty to fifty articles I scanned, this is the only one that intrigued me enough to spend more than 10 seconds on reading it. I found it on the Chicago Tribune website via Google news.
This is an important story because it discusses a possible assassination attempt on out President. In all honesty, I was expecting President Obama to be assassinated shortly after winning the Presidency. I just thought to myself, even thought America has grown so much in integrating races and cultures there are still a lot of people who don’t agree with civil rights and human equality; is it really that hard to assassinate someone who is constantly in the public eye?
This story is newsworthy because not only is it about the most prominent figure in the world, the President of the United States, but it is about a potential attempt to kill him. It just happened in December, but the press just caught wind of it this week, so the timeliness applies. This story is also slightly bizarre. We’ve had snipers, anthrax envelopes, and hijacked planes to harm and terrorize America. It is new for someone to mail their AIDS infected blood to the president; important, recent, weird.
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Yes, this definitely has the "unusual/weird" news value in spades ... but you've got some typos and AP style errors in here.
ReplyDelete* 40 to 50
* our (not "out") president (lower case, not capitalized -- ditto for presidency)
9/10