Hannah Rebernisek CTP Blog Post #4

I watched the Fox 6 News report from 10:00PM-10:30PM on Friday, September, 23. The news anchors reporting were Brad Hicks and Stephanie Grady. Below I have categorized the stories as positive, negative, or neutral.

• Positive Stories
• Trump to come to Wisconsin
• Clinton and Trump current poll results
• Negative Stories
• "New Video Shows Police Shooting"
• reporter Stacy Cohan
• Live footage from Charlotte, North Carolina
• "Remembering Crash Victims"
• reporter Ashley Sears
• vehicle crashed into wood chipper, going 70-80mph
• motor vehicle safety, obey rules of the road
• "Girl Ejected in Crash"
• Noelle Deerh, 3rd OWI
• hit utility pole and 3 year old daughter was ejected from vehicle
• "Man Arrested for Child Porn"
• David Baker facing charges for child pornography
• attempted to lure a 9 year old in sexual contact over the internet, police were in on it
• "4 Dead in Mall Shooting"
• Breaking News
• Burlington, Washington (1 hour north of Seattle)
• "Gov. Walker to Tour Flood Damage"
• will visit Gay Mills on Saturday

• Neutral Stories
• Weather report
• Sports
• reporter Brandon Cruz
• "Triple the Fun" 
• Reds vs. Brewers triple play
• Interview with Aaron Rodgers
• "Big 10 Action Begins"
• Badgers football
• High School Blitz
• "Arrowhead vs. Catholic Memorial"
• "Waukesha North vs. Waukesha South"
• "Greenfield vs. Whitnall" (Game of the Week)
• "Brookfield Central vs. Marquette"
• Vincent vs. Washington"
• "Scaffidi Won't Seek Third Term"
• will leave office in 2018

After watching the news, I concluded that there were much more negative stories, than there were positive. I categorized the stories based on if the overall message of the story was more positive or more negative. There was only one positive story out of the entire news cast. Although there is a lot of frustration when it comes to the 2016 political race, I ranked the story positive because it shows current poll results. This can help promote the public to vote for their desired candidate. The stories that I ranked negative were ranked that way for a reason. There were two stories about car accidents, two stories about deadly shootings, one about child pornography, and one about a flood. 

I also concluded that while there were more females reporting, more of the stories were about males. The majority of the stories were about Caucasian people. The only two stories that were about African American people were about the crash victims and the live footage of protests from Charlotte, NC. I also noticed that the stories that involved African Americans had a deadly result, while the stories about Caucasians were serious but didn't have a fatal outcome. The ages varied throughout the stories. Some stories were about young adults in their twenties, while other stories covered people well into their sixties. Even the news reporters fell right in the middle of that range. The reporters were in their 30s or 40s. 

I think this news cast reflected true reality to the viewers quite well. Today's society isn't rainbows and butterflies. People need to take off their rose colored glasses and realize how negative and dangerous the world can be. Although I would have loved to have seen more positive stories in the news cast, it's easier to report about the negative things because there is so much to cover. I don't think the news tried to hide the truth from the viewers. So that makes me conclude that what I watched during that news cast is really what the world is like.