I usually watch a news program everyday. The program I watch is local, not national. I don’t watch national news because I believe it has become too political and is no longer objective. I am not interested in some reporter’s opinion of the President or the candidates. Just report what happened and move on. The local networks sometimes are not objective, but not often. They do a good job of reporting the local news and cover some national news.

Friday I was watching a local news program and their top story was about one case of vandalism on an individual’s car. I don’t remember what their next story was, but the third item was an alert about a missing teenager, who was possibly suicidal. My husband and I commented on this. We thought that the top story should have been about the missing teen instead of a story about someone’s tires getting slashed. Who decides what the top stories are? Usually, as a viewer, I just watch the news. On Friday I was analyzing what I was watching. I really don’t know anything at all about producing a news program. I know that the anchors usually read what is put in front of them (when they do improvise it can be disastrous), but that is all I know about news programs. Hopefully our guest speaker will be able to teach me more.