On the Courier Journal app, under the section “Top Stories,” there is an article published that is titled Multiple Victims Reported at Shooting in Business Park in Aberdeen, Maryland. This article does not meet the elements of journalism. The main standard that it failed to meet is relevance.
The Courier Journal is the largest news organization in Kentucky, meaning the news must be relevant to people who live in Kentucky. A shooting in some warehouse in Maryland has no relevance to citizens of Kentucky, so that article shouldn’t be published in the Courier, let alone in the “Top Stories” section.
If the shooting had been a school shooting or a police officer shooting a black person, it would have more relevant because those are topics that are controversial all across the US. However, although devastating, this shooting occurred in a random warehouse in the middle of Maryland which has no effect on people who live in Kentucky.
Perhaps it is relevant because it's part of our national concern with mass shootings. True, it did not happen in Kentucky, but the national problem with mass shootings certainly relates to Kentucky (especially because we've had our own mass shootings in this state, such as the Standard Gravure workplace shooting in 1989). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Gravure_shooting
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