I was browsing through WAVE 3's line up of top stories, when I came across this gem, "One Person Rushed to Hospital After Overnight Fire". This is not newsworthy, yet it was placed in top stories. This isn't a top story. Only one person was injured. They lived in a mobile home park, with only their home being burned. This did not affect anyone else in anyway. This should not be considered top news, all it is is a gimmick to get our attention. Plus they only wrote four sentences. Four. I am pretty positive top stories consist of more than four lines. All WAVE wrote was the location of the fire and how the person suffered burns. The cause of the fire is unknown, which is the only semi-interesting thing in the whole story.
Plus the photo they included wasn't even taken at the location of the fire. It was a photo taken off of Google images. Curiously I looked up firefighter in Google images and in the third row and sixth photo to the right, there is the image WAVE used. They ripped off some cheap image from Google and stuck it in the article, hoping to add in suspense.
This isn't real journalism and should definitely not be considered a top story.
Here is the link to the story: http://www.wave3.com/story/23931627/one-person-rushed-to-hospital-after-overnight-fire
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