Thursday 3 November 2016

local science news story analysis

This story was taken from BBC News website about not flushing wipes down the toilet.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Britain's water companies.
What: a lot of money is being wasted having to unblock drains that have been blocked up by wipes which are being flushed down the toilet.
Where: the UK
Why: Blocked drains due to wipes.
When: 26 October 2016

News Values:
Familiarity: It is a story which is geographically close to us and has an effect on us.
Amplitude: This story involves a large number of people and effects large numbers of people.
Impact: It does an effect on us in a couple of ways as the drains are being blocked and thus there will be more money required to unblock them.  
Negativity: It is a bad piece of news and has a negative affect on us.

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