Wednesday, 28 August 2013

News Story - The Daily Mail

Has Miley gone too far? Cyrus strips to nude latex bra and hotpants to perform lewd dance with Robin Thicke at MTV VMAs

  • Celebrities including Nick Cannon and Brooklyn Decker took to Twitter to blast Miley's performance
  • Rihanna and One Direction seen looking visibly stunned in the audience


This is a recent news headline from the Daily Mail website, Miley Cyrus' risque performance at the VMAS that has caused huge controversy in the media world. As I was looking through the recent stories on the website I noticed that most of the stories are about celebrities and their recent whereabouts. These celebrity stories are not of very high currency to the Daily Mail on their own, unlike a breaking news story that the BBC would run. However the amount of stories like the one shown above that the Daily Mail publish is huge, so even though they may not be of interest to people for very long, its the quantity of the stories that gives them their value.
This story is of a well known child star who is trying to find to find her feet in becoming an adult in the music industry. People are interested in her personality and this piece has uniqueness because people want to read about her and how she's changed from the clean cut child star we all know her as.
The website also show the most recent and breaking news stories at the top of the list to the side of the homepage. This means that the first news stories that you will read will be the most recent ones giving the stories high recency.
Most of the news shown is based around celebrity culture or fashion. The stories are not really of high urgency and are more for the viewers entertainment.

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