The news has always been a popular to the people because as people we want to know what is going on in the world we live in. That is all the news was too, it was a tool used to keep the public informed. Now, the news is used for advertising, to exploit people, and even a forum to express opinion on certain issues. I watched three different news stations on the same night. I would flip through and compare them to each other. The are surprisingly very similar and very different at the same time.
             The first news station I watched was WB39 news at 9:00 p.m. This news show is probably the least watched news station on Houston. I know this because the show seems much unorganized and the people seem nervous. The two desk reporters who were giving the nightly news both spoke very timidly and never took their eyes off the queue cards. One of them was a white male and the other was a black woman. They started out with a story about an Amtrak derailment that killed 1 and injured 96. They showed pictures of crash site and they said that the caused of the crash was unknown. I thought it was weird that they did not know how the crash happened and yet the reported it. Next, they went to report on the Anna Nicole Smith Trial. The on the scene reporter was a young white male. They did like a 15-minute story on her and the court case. I thought it was interesting that you only see old male and young females doing the news and old females and young males do on the scene reporting. I also felt that WB39 was a little biased because the majority of the program was about Houston news and the rest was domestic and foreign news. Next, they did sports. The person reported on only three sports, these were basketball, baseball and golf. Each of three sports they reported on had either a team from Texas or a player from Texas. The basketball news was about the NCAA tournament, which that day had their last Texas team eli
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