http://www.wave3.com/story/23961581/cards-coach-buys-beers-for-2500-fans
While scrolling through the local news section of WAVE 3's website, I was stopped by a rather disappointing story. "Card's coach buys beers for 2,500 fans" written by Sarah Eisenmenger, breaks one of the seven yardsticks of journalism, newsworthiness. Although the story could be classified under sports, which after all is a peripheral topic, is the true meaning of the story about sports? Absolutely not, the meaning is how the University of Louisville's basketball coach is handing out beer to the fans that go to the game. He claim it is his way of saying thank you to his loyal fans, in my opinion there are more beneficial means of rewarding the fans for loyalty. Anyways, to clearly understand that this is un-newsworthy, do not consider the fact that "cards coach" is stated, then read the rest of the sentence. It has nothing to do with sports what so ever. An example of a newsworthy sports story is the following: http://www.wave3.com/story/23936494/uofls-behanan-will-be-back-in-uniform-tuesday-night. This story is describing that a key player of U of L's basketball team will be back in action soon, which for most of Louisville, is exciting. That is something that people want to know following up the previous news about this player. To conclude all of this, if a local TV news station is going to portray a sports story, is must be strictly about sports.
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