WHAS 10/16, 10/19, 10/21

  My data from these three nights reflects great differences. The WHAS website was modeled differently, and contained an average of 58 stories each day. This is about 3 times as many stories as the following week. My group did not know the cause of this drastic change, but we still analyzed the types of stories given. There was an average of 14 fluff stories online per night, which is equal to yhe average number of crime stories per night. 

  To cover the television portion of WHAS, all three headlines were local. Two were crime and one was politics. There were no international stories reported on TV. Unlike the website, crime was not a main focus for other regular block stories. My group decided that WHAS reports more on crime stories as headlines because they are easy to follow. They require a voice over played with some B-roll, and not much else. The fluff stories are shareable, and they bring viewers to the website. What we also found was the perpetuation of tosses, or when an anchor or reporter introduces another one with a new story. WHAS reporters typically stall with cheap conversation that literally regards the weather. Because of tosses, the weather and sports segments, and the long breaks, WHAS hardly fits news into a 30 minute show.