Journalism Issue from Chapter 12

News reporting on television is often vastly dissimilar to that of print, online and radio news coverage. Television news relies heavily on vision and soundbites as the framework for the strength of their stories. Often the story with the best vision will run rather than the story with the most news value. Television news also relies on the convenience factor. While they are unable to cover anywhere near the amount of content in print news (a whole news half hour may only contain as much content as 75% of a newspaper spreadsheet), television news often gains the greatest audience based on the warmth it is able to give out through familiar anchors and public trust in television to answer all their questions. News reporting is often of a lower intellectual standard than other mediums, based on the need to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Everybody needs to be informed, not just those with the intellect to understand and interpret complex reports and ideas. News value and reporting style varies between the different mediums.