This article is
about how France’s senate banned children 16 an under from competing in beauty
pageants. This news isn’t relevant to enough people. This was featured in the Lexington Herald. This wasn’t made for The Lexington Herald but the news shouldn’t be featured on
this website. In the 7 basic yardsticks of journalism it talks about Local
relevance. This may be relevant to people interested in beauty pageants but
only in France. It would be relevant for France to write about this, which they
did, but the author of this (the associated press)got information from France.
If people really
wanted to know this information they might keep up with beauty pageant websites
and that is where an article like this should be featured. A magazine about
beauty pageants would also be a great place to feature an article like this;
the news for Kentucky is not the place.
This article was
mainly a populist article. The author probably thought that the topic of
banning beauty pageants was interesting for people, which it was, but it was
yet again, not relevant. It would be a different story if this article was
about the United States or Kentucky, not France.
It's true that this article isn't locally relevant, in the sense that it's about France and not Kentucky. But there are child beauty pageants in our area, and the article concludes by saying that child beauty pageants around the world have drawn criticism. Besides, it's not a Kentucky reporter; it's an Associated Press wire services article.
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