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If you ever sat through Journalism 101, [as I Healthmyths had in college!] you know all about the Five Ws and one H. For the rest of you, you may find this concept helpful when preparing interview questions or writing factual news stories. This concept may help you write better news releases too, considering they should contain news.
Five Ws and One H: The Secret to Complete News Stories
“Can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? Will he tell the truth?” Acosta asked as Conway spoke with reporters about the speech outside the White House.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/kellyanne-conway-calls-jim-acosta-smart-ass-in-heated-exchange/
What kind of NON-Journalistic, antagonistic question!
Where in that question was there any question asking the 5 Ws?
NO WHERE!
Acosta was simply being an antagonist! Not a journalist. As a result is it any wonder millions of Americans like me are reading/watching/listening to the MSM with a totally jaundiced demeanor.
The MSM has totally ignored the principles of journalism and are presenting biased news that more and more of us are ignoring. Why is the Dallas Morning News, NYTimes, among others having financial problems and IT is NOT only because of the Internet or social media! Newspaper Death Watch
In part it is because of what the following study shows.
Study: Here's Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting On Trump Was In 2018
NewsBusters notes that Harvard media scholar Thomas Patterson's analysis of NBC's and CBS's news coverage found similar results: the former's coverage was 93% negative, while the latter's was 91% negative. CNN and leading newspapers were also egregiously biased.
Since he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, MRC has been tracking "every moment of coverage of President Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts," which a total of some 23 million viewers watch on average every night. And what they've found since they first started watching is amazingly consistent: the media's spin on all Trump-related stories has been "incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements)."
Study: Here's Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting On Trump Was In 2018
NOW I truly don't expect you raging, emotionally driven anti-Trump people to respond because anything you say is truly non-factual!
But this is meant for those millions of honest people that still believe the MSM is unbiased and these people shake their heads in confusion when they hear the negative news about the President.
Folks... Trump IS a braggart! Is Obnoxious! Is loud. Boisterous! NO question!
But he has gotten things done in two years that have not been done in 50 years!
IN spite of the 90% incessant negative press!
FACTS!
Five Ws and One H: The Secret to Complete News Stories
- Who was involved?
- What happened?
- Where did it take place?
- When did it take place?
- Why did that happen?
“Can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? Will he tell the truth?” Acosta asked as Conway spoke with reporters about the speech outside the White House.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/kellyanne-conway-calls-jim-acosta-smart-ass-in-heated-exchange/
What kind of NON-Journalistic, antagonistic question!
Where in that question was there any question asking the 5 Ws?
NO WHERE!
Acosta was simply being an antagonist! Not a journalist. As a result is it any wonder millions of Americans like me are reading/watching/listening to the MSM with a totally jaundiced demeanor.
The MSM has totally ignored the principles of journalism and are presenting biased news that more and more of us are ignoring. Why is the Dallas Morning News, NYTimes, among others having financial problems and IT is NOT only because of the Internet or social media! Newspaper Death Watch
In part it is because of what the following study shows.
Study: Here's Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting On Trump Was In 2018
NewsBusters notes that Harvard media scholar Thomas Patterson's analysis of NBC's and CBS's news coverage found similar results: the former's coverage was 93% negative, while the latter's was 91% negative. CNN and leading newspapers were also egregiously biased.
Since he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, MRC has been tracking "every moment of coverage of President Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts," which a total of some 23 million viewers watch on average every night. And what they've found since they first started watching is amazingly consistent: the media's spin on all Trump-related stories has been "incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements)."
Study: Here's Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting On Trump Was In 2018
NOW I truly don't expect you raging, emotionally driven anti-Trump people to respond because anything you say is truly non-factual!
But this is meant for those millions of honest people that still believe the MSM is unbiased and these people shake their heads in confusion when they hear the negative news about the President.
Folks... Trump IS a braggart! Is Obnoxious! Is loud. Boisterous! NO question!
But he has gotten things done in two years that have not been done in 50 years!
IN spite of the 90% incessant negative press!
FACTS!