Weekly Response 7

Weekly Response 7

There had been a lot of good stories so far this year. One of my favorites was the one about the hockey team getting in trouble for the harlem shake video. I was the manager of the hockey team, so that story was one I heard about a lot before I even saw the news report. I also liked news story about the Olympics cutting out wrestling. I thought it was really interesting because I couldn’t imagine training the Olympics and then finding something like that out.

Timing: 1,2,2,5,1,6,2,2,6,3,1,6: Average 3.5

Significance: 4,5,3,1,3,1,1,5,4,3,5,4: Average 3.25

Human Interest: 5,1,4,4,5,4,4,1,2,2,1,2: Average 2.92

Proximity: 4,1,1,3,4,3,6,3,3,3,2,5: Average 3.17

Prominence: 5,6,6,6,2,3,6,4,5,1,3,6: Average 4.42

Oddity/Uniqueness: 1,4,5,1,6,3,1,2,1,4,3,2: Average 2.75

Most of my numbers really varied on the story. A couple of the categories like human interest and significance never were the least important. I think it is interesting that usually some things don’t matter as much as others. Timing was something that I thought would be the most important for all of the stories but then some of the later stories it didn’t seem to be as important.