The Courier Journal is a local newspaper that has countless subscribers across the Louisville and Southern Indiana areas. The idea of a newspaper is to bring important happenings to the people of the subscribing area. However, this has not been the case for the Courier Journal. On October 28th there were thirty-seven stories on the newspaper's website. Thirteen of these stories (over one third of the stories on the website that day) were about celebrities or other things that were not important for people to know. This violates the yardstick of newsworthiness because these stories will not have a lasting affect on a large group of people. The Courier Journal needs to stop publishing so many "fluff" stories and perhaps focus on more important things, such as the upcoming election.
Here is a link to a "fluff" story on The Courier Journal- http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2014/11/02/new-albanys-jr-stuart-slips-easily-character-mark-twain/18396293/
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