An article was posted to the USA Today website on September 14, 2015 about two identical twin sisters who are pregnant with twins and are due to give birth only two weeks apart.
"Utah twins pregnant with second set of twins," is one of the articles found in the website's national news section that violate the 1st and 4th yardsticks which are newsworthiness and local relevance. Overall, it is just another feel good story and not in anyway newsworthy. This article's topic would be considered peripheral which means the story does not have a long lasting informational impact over a vast audience. In order for a story to be newsworthy, it has to be the opposite of peripheral. Stories that are worthy to be placed in national news should have a lasting impact on the people of our nation. The yardstick of local relevance was also violated by this story. Local relevance is how does the story affect the audience. In this case, the audience is not affected at all. They would carry on with their lives and forget they ever read the article. None of their lives would have a sliver of an impact because as time drags on, they would forget the several feel good stories they have read.
USA Today does have a section called "Life" for peripheral topics such as celebrity and sport news as well as other unique stories. A suggestion to the story's writer, Ms. Durando, is that she should have placed the story into that section instead of the national news section.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/14/utah-twins-pregnant-second-set-twins/72262780/
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