News Values

Timeliness -"Two teen girls dead in Ariz. school shooting"
Two 15 year old sophomores were found dead the morning of Friday the 12th, near an isolated area of campus near the administration building. Each victim was found with a single sustained gunshot wound, laying next to one another dead. About 2,000 students attend the school, Glendale Union High School District. Parents worrying "Oh my god, it could have been my daughter". Said parent.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/12/arizona-high-school-shooting/80285710/
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Proximity - "Inside 'afluenza' teen's Texas prison home"
Texas teen, Ethan Couch was given probation for killing four people for a drunk driving crash.
The judge ordered Couch out of juvenile detention last friday. With a notorious high profile, it could be risky since someone could try and hurt him.  The teen is now serving ten years probation for the killing of four people and injuring se verbal others in 2013.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/10/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-prison-home/80165752/
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Prominence - "Sikh Actor is allowed to fly home to U.S wearing his turban"
- Waris Ahluwalia refused to remove his turban during a security check to the U.S, so they did not allow to board an airplane in Mexico City. He said it was a "symbol of my faith" just as his beard are considered articles of faith. "It is something that I wear whenever I am in public." After the situation was resolved an apology was given and the airline took steps to train its staff about the Sikh religion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/world/americas/waris-ahluwalia-sikh-actor-turban-aeromexico-flight-mexico-city.html?ref=world
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Impact - "Beyonce's Super Bowl Performance Was a Racist Political Statement In Support of Marxist Cop Killers"
- "Beyonce's racist performance included only black dancers, white girls were not allowed to participate"
Beyonce's Super bowl halftime performance was a cop hating statement supporting of the Black panthers. After the performance posing with raised fists evocative of the black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/gross-beyonces-super-bowl-performance-was-a-racist-political-statement-in-support-of-cop-killers/
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