Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the e-mail address listed on your account. Commissioner Mark Newcomb has a slightly different idea about how Teton County could fund a rental assistance program. The three commissioners who voted against the program said they were open to supporting it with some conditions.
Both the town and county would need to agree to spend Housing Department funds on the program because the department is funded by both local governments. But other commissioners who voted against the original proposal, concerned among other things about provisions that would have allowed the funds to go towards pet deposits, supported what Commissioner Newcomb proposed.
Newcomb talked about his idea on Dec. Norton said she and Sharel Lund, executive director of One22, had talked about bringing the issue back to the town and county elected officials during budgeting for the coming fiscal year, which will start after the New Year.
The idea, in her mind, was to give One22 a few more months of running its current program and have it bring back some data on what it had done. Contact Billy Arnold at or barnold jhnewsandguide. Billy Arnold has covered government and policy since January , sitting through hours of Teton County meetings so readers don't have to. He moonlights as a ski reporter, helps with pandemic coverage and sneaks away to climb when he can.
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Connect with us. Choose A Format. Personality quiz. You have probably noticed that celebrities or other well-known individuals are the focus of many news stories. One of the big reasons that news organizations include stories about many of the little, personal things that happen in the lives of celebrities is that they consider celebrities themselves to have a high consequence.
In other words, celebrities matter to a lot of people who want to know the smallest, personal details about their personal lives. Whether or not you consider this important news, it seems that news organizations like to include it, and to make it as dramatic as they can to attract their audience.
For example, an earthquake in an urban area will affect many people, causing a lot of infrastructural and personal damage. It will be a big and prolonged news story nationally and internationally. Most of the news we get tends to be about people and places that are familiar to us or close to us. Another way to say this is that news has proximity. When gatekeepers decide on news content, one of the things they consider is whether the event or situation is relevant to the audience.
When considering local television news, for example, most of the stories are about things that are happening in the local city or larger surrounding area. The same is the case for most city and neighborhood newspapers. A fire that breaks out at a home in Brooklyn, New York, would likely make it onto the evening newscast of one of the local New York City TV newscasts, but would not be broadcast in Boston or Chicago.
The geographic footprint of relevance is much wider for these news outlets, but the stories reported from around the world are not always told the same way. Sometimes cultural familiarity, or proximity, results in certain types of gatekeeping choices.
In the case of U. For example, researchers who study news have found very often that when U. Stories reported from European countries are not like stories from African countries or South American countries. The complaint has been that U. So, familiarity and geography are important factors that gatekeepers consider when deciding on what to include as news, and how the news will be presented.
Much of the news we read in newspapers or magazines, watch on TV, listen to on the radio and find on the Internet is dramatic. That means that events that happen are likely to become news if they include an element of drama, and have clearly identifiable good and bad characters or situations.
A news story about a robbery at a convenience store will highlight who was robbed the good guys and who did the robbing the bad guys, usually with guns or other weapons. In this situation the news story about the robbery makes clear who is good and who is bad. Another example of drama in news is when we get a story about someone who desires something and goes to great measure to obtain it, or when someone obtains something with great difficulty. A good example is a news story about an Olympic athlete who wins a medal for outstanding athletic feats in spite of great personal or social obstacles that may have been placed in front of him or her.
Finally, another kind of drama that makes for a good news story is when someone performs some type of heroic deed. Most recently, Malala became the youngest individual to ever receive a Nobel Peace Prize. This made a terrific news story, with news outlets repeatedly referring to Malala as a hero. If you pay close attention to the news on any given day you will notice that there is an element of drama in many of the news stories you read, watch or listen to.
The way we understand events in the world and in our lives is often through story-telling. Another way to refer to story-telling is to call it narrative.
Notice that we refer to news items as news stories. For example, a news story about a woman who gives birth to eight babies at one time was reported on the date of the birth as a timely and highly unusual event just because of the number of live children who were born to one woman at one time. But as reporters and other news people learned more about the situation,they discovered that the woman had six other children already at home, and that she was unmarried. These facts combined made for an even more unusual situation, compared to that of most other mothers in our culture.
It is rare in our society today for a woman to give birth to so many children. But because of medical reproductive technologies available to us, it is physically possible for women to have multiple births, even as many as eight.
In order to make sense of this plausible but highly unusual situation, many new organizations reported stories about the woman in a way that cast her as not just unusual, but as a negative model of motherhood. In fact, she was practically demonized. Doing so made is easier for the public to consider her as something other than human.
This is one way in which news organizations shaped, and re-told many times, a story about a woman and her many children that focused mostly on her personal characteristics, casting her as way outside the mainstream.
The news spent very little time on other facts or issues surrounding the story, including modern reproductive technologies, medical ethics, or the role of the male parental figure s who were also involved in some way in the births of all of the children. The point is that when news organizations report a story, they are doing more than just offering the facts. They are offering a way for the public not only to know, but also to understand an event or situation.
They are drawing from culturally-shared values and a motive to sell their news by making it as dramatic and as interesting as possible.
The Buckeyes average a nation-leading Quarterback C. Stroud has passed for 3, yards and 38 touchdowns while running back TreVeyon Henderson has run for 1, yards and 15 touchdowns. Defensively, tackle Haskell Garrett has recorded 5. They have a 1,yard rusher, a couple of thousand-yard receivers and another guy on the verge of it.
So we have our hands full. I have nothing but the utmost respect for him and his program. Whittingham was in Florida on Sunday for a recruiting trip. Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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