Politics

There have been a lot of political events going on in our nation lately such as all the democratic and republican debates for the presidential election as well as Election Day coming up on November 2nd for many different positions such as Secratary of State. So a person would think that they would see many stories on our local tv stations on politics. However, only 7.41% of all the stories on all five local news sources have been on politics. Politics is one topic that many people are interested in and like to see people's opinions on the candidates. If stations were to talk about political issues this could possibly accelerate viewers because it is newsworthy material. Our local news stations have a habit of including to much in one area and not knowing how to balance there stories out among different topics. This could eventually lead into a major decline of viewers.