Media Critique
Recently Fox News published an article about a man arrested in a library for sniffing a woman's feet. While this story might have made an interesting tidbit for local news entertainment, it is hardly worthy of being one of the first stories to pop up on Fox's website. It is neither very important nor is it going to effect the nation as a whole for a long time, and thus is not news worthy enough to be put along side ongoing, headlining stories such as the migrant crisis in Syria.
Also, some of the facts are unclear, messing up the flow of the article and making it difficult and confusing for the reader. The analyze part of the ten elements of journalism could have been carried through better.
The article should be re-worked by the journalist to make the story clearer and easier to understand. It should also be removed from the home page of the website to a place that focuses more on unusual stories, not under the crime and court tag it is currently under. While yes, it is a crime, it is not news worthy enough to be under a headline that massive and would fit better in something more akin to entertainment.
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