CNN's newspulse shows the most popular recent news stories at the top of the page, making it easier for people to see what's important and what's not. Days after Tiger's nascar like wreck in his driveway, it is still the number one story. The screen shot shows El Tigre at the top, followed by a police shooting, and some other interesting stories. Almost fifteen stories down, buried under three other meaningless Tiger stories, the white house dinner party crashers, and the "surprisingly successful New Moon," a little blurb about Iran's authorization of ten new nuclear power plant appears. Wait what? People care more about the domestic life of the best golfer ever than Iran's disobedience of the Internation Atomic Energy Agency?? Global Village like WHOA SEGWAY KIIDDDDD.
Geeze i got a little excited there but it's a perfect example of the agenda setting theory, in a couple different ways. First off, agenda setting theory in its most basic form is the ideology that the news tells us what is important. We assume the most prevalent and pressing issues today are what is on the news, regardless of whether or not they actually are. Only certain people in control of the news decided what we see, adn therefore the news isn't completely biased. It can have implications on a global level, especially if news is being exported.
But what's going on here is a little different. CNN.com posts stories written from a western perspective for a western audience and lets the readers choose which stories to read. But due to newspulse, the most eye catching stories at the top are the ones being read most. From this picture and the order of the stories, CNN is turning into TMZ ever so slowly. Wait, no, i get CNN's angle now. Iran's nuclear increase and potentially world threatening decision can only be stopped by one man. Tomorrow's headline "EL TIGRE SAVES THE ENTIRE WORLD FROM IRAN"
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