Honest News

During the class we designed our own kind of news show. Here are the questions we needed to answer:

What is the mode of presentation?

Basic idea is that we have two reporters and they both have very different attitudes and opinions. Other one is always sarcastic and always making jokes where the other one is plain serious and talks about things as they seem for most of us. First they of course just tell us the news but then they start commenting and speculating.

What kind of stories do you focus on?

Every program would start with news with light content so they could make jokes and make funny atmosphere. After that they start slowly moving to slightly more serious issues step by step. There are lot of thing people are afraid of talking about and in this way we could make people focus on those things in a interesting way. We would always offer two different opinions and that way people would have to think and look for their own.

How do you keep people engaged?

We are fed lot a of information every day and I believe there is a market for this kind of news. We would make people angry but we would also keep them awake and waiting for more information. We are not trying to make this program into trash news but instead just to make people listen. Sometimes people understand things easier if it wakes up emotion. We are so dead to all horrible things that are happening.

If our style is often sarcastic and playful, then if some day we would chance the style of telling the news it could make a big effect on people's mind. We joke about everything else, but not about that thing? That would make an illusion that this matter is too serious even for us to joke about.

How do you employ other media platforms, social media and user generated content?

Because of the nature of the program the location of studio would be a secret. We would have post boxes where people could send their messages but other media platforms would be ignored. We are not interested to hear people's endless Facebook comments. If you have something to say you have go through some trouble for it. Buy a post stamp for example.