What about millions of readers and viewers? Can a family's struggle through life's difficulties really be enough to base a news story on? Shows like 60 Minutes and magazines like Time claim they are reporting news, but I think that interviewing someone's personal life hardly qualifies as actual news. News should be factual, giving society information that really matters and pertains to what is currently going on in out world. Today sensationalism and human interest stories are dominating out so called news sources, but this is no news.

In Jim Squires' essay "The Impossibility of Fairness," he writes, " With the exception of a few fine and committed newspapers and magazines, the professional standards and values of journalism have go

ne to hell in a hand-basket, cast out in favor of an entertainment culture with no moral compass and no concern for fairness- or taste." (767). I for one completely agree with his claim about today's journalism tactics. America is too concerned with entertainment news than factual news.

As you can see, sensationalism and human-interest stories are taking over our news programs and dominating our newsmagazines. Squires was totally on the ball when he said that, " Much of real journalism establishment has been swallowed up by the entertainment industry." (769). News is no longer just important information, it contains all the elements of a dramatic soap opera as well. As the sickeningly truthful saying goes " if it bleeds it leads."

I can understand how many people find this information interesting and think it should be part of our news programs. Pure facts can be somewhat boring, but these human-interest stories are just that, stories. These stories do hold entertainment value but have no place being

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