WHAS Media Critique

WHAS violates the enterprise yardstick of journalism. They report on a lot of crime stories. 6 out of 8 stories in their main news section (http://www.whas11.com/news) were crime. These stories included one about a roommate fight that led to stabbing (http://www.whas11.com/news/LMPD-Roommate-fight-leads-to-stabbing-assault-charge-231966111.html) and of course a trial story (http://www.whas11.com/news/Hearings-delayed-for-Mellencamps-teenage-sons-231959041.html). These types of stories are not only un-newsworthy, but they are also passive reporting. WHAS is getting stories the lazy way. They should be going out and investigating to find information instead of just going to a location and reporting on the obvious information. This also violates the principle, make the important interesting. WHAS is taking stories that might be interesting and making them sound important.