Bb Evening News Analysis

Summary For the news assignment, I viewed the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. This aired on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. I am going to describe the top news story presented at the beginning of the segment. This story is about sexually abused female Olympic gymnasts. Two female gymnasts come forward to Congress and plead their story about their coach in the Olympics sexually abusing them in their hotel rooms when they were just teens. The women are much older now, but still come forth with their mournful story.

Theory CBS News is a national news program. The directors and anchors try to supply the public with national interests, that they believe the public should know about. The news media informs the public with what issues
They begin the segment with shock and disbelief. As the anchors cut to a video of the women pleading their story to Congress we see the women’s emotions as they are crying and weeping describing the horrifying acts that happened to them. The audience then sees what measures are being taken so that these actions do not continue to happen. The news directors, anchors and reporters do their job by finding stories that they feel will intrigue the public and keep them informed. They also present different binary oppositions to each story while doing their best to stay impartial to the different stories and actions that are presented. The news essentially uses ideology so that the anchor and/or experts can present the rewards and punishments. Rewards and punishments are displayed in most news stories. The anchor assigns the rewards to the brave young gymnasts who are opening up to the public about the occurrences. While the punishment is dealt with the coach who sexually abused them. At the end of this story, the anchor gives the American people hope by showing the clip of a Congress woman trying to pass legislation to protect future sport player victims of sexual