WHAS News Story

There are many unimportant news stories out there, and this is one. WHAS has reported on this news story about a woman bringing an alligator onto a train. The 7th principle of journalism has told us that "it (journalism) must balance what readers know they want with what they cannot anticipate but need. What this means is that journalists need to give their audience information that is important and that will have an affect on them. This story of an alligator is not important. It's just an interesting, eye-catching story. WHAS should not even allow this story to be reported on. This story of the woman and the alligator is very weird and peculiar indeed but the readers don't need to know this information which is the opposite making the important interesting.