Oct 31 2018
News Comment #10 – D.J. Durkin Is Fired by Maryland a Day After Being Reinstated
The lead in this article is very good. It does exactly what the lead is supposed to do and that is inform the reader of everything necessary to know from the article. It did a great job of that, summarizing the situation in only 2 sentences.
There are plenty of news values that this story can fall under due to the situation at hand. One of the first ones is the value of prominence. Durkin is a very prominent head coach especially in Maryland and with the situation he has been more well known. That is why this story falls under the news value of prominence.
Another news value this falls under is relevance. This story has been an evergreen story lately with the ongoing investigation and reports of what was going to happen with the Maryland athletic program after the death of their player. This story has had relevance for a while and is very important to the college football landscape with the outcome of this investigation being the firing of Coach Durkin.
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When you post really long URLs, I’m not able to copy and paste them. There is a way in WP to make a phrase — Click Here — into a link. Ask me how some time.
Good discussion. Today the news seems to be a fight between punters, believe it or not.