Dresch Rundown Rationale

NEWSCAST #2, 10/28/2010

A1 Music & Heads

A2 High Speed Rail: I choose to lead with this story because it is a local story about how Syracuse is receiving federal money to expand it's transportation center.

A3 Haledyne: This next story was an anchor actuality. It created a nice flow from the reader because this is also a local story about Syracuse. The focus of this story was that a company is moving to Syracuse and will create 100 job opportunities.

A4 Recession Over: This story was a wrap about how economists have claimed that the recession ended June 2009, but economist Roger Evans of Central New York argues otherwise. This went along with the previous stories because it was a local story and dealt with economy which is similar to the first story about funding and the second story about job opportunities.

A5 Drug Bust: I chose to put this reader after A4 because the previous story was a wrap and the one before that was an anchor actuality. This next story begins the transition from economic topics to stories relating to crime. This story was about a drug bust involving people in Oswego and parts of Western New York.

A6 Shooting Victim: This is another reader that relates to the previous reader because it deals with crime. This story was specifically about a man who entered Upstate University Hospital with a bullet wound in his shoulder.

A7 Notre Dame Death: This anchor actuality deals with another victim but in this case it did not have to do with crime. This story was about a Notre Dame student who was killed when the photo tower he was standing in fell over. It flows nicely because it breaks up the readers.

A8 Carrots: This wrap was a little soft but it's a nice transition to begin the end of the block. With the hard news and the story above about the tragic death of the Notre Dame student, this story was a nice change. Adam's wrap was about how F-M wants to extend the sale of baby carrots in vending machines.

A9 College Costs: This story continued the flow of our rundown because it is a softer story like the baby carrots wrap and it is also a school related piece. I chose to put this reader at the end of A block because if our newscast was heavy we could've easily dropped this reader and go to the break.

B1 Cosmetic Surgery: I thought this story was a good kicker because it is a news story that isn't hard news. This story is about how taxpayers in Buffalo have spent close to nine-million dollars on cosmetic surgeries for teachers. The cosmetic surgeries were in the Teachers' Union Contract.

After the kicker we followed it up with the weather and our close. We also had two extra stories on hand in case we were light on time.