Comprehensive and Proportional news is kind of important.

Certain stories get seriously hyped up in order to sell.  That's the problem with news today.  It's all about ratings.  News outlets care more about money than actually providing news.  That's all good and well because without money a news outlet can't function, but it does compromise the integrity of news itself.  The generation growing up now and becoming adults care much more about the latest celebrity scandal than uprisings in the Middle East.  It's not that there aren't people who care, it's just that when you walk into a grocery store, the industry knows that you're more likely to grab a magazine with a cover that blasts Teen Mom stars for getting plastic surgery than a cover that talks about an oil crisis.

As journalists, we have to try not to hype a story in order to get readers.  It is our responsibility to deliver news as it is as opposed to a hyped up version that will produce more dollars.  A good journalist doesn't have to hype up a story, but rather tries to deliver the hard facts of a story in an interesting and entertaining way.  It's hard to do and it's becoming a dying art, but I still firmly believe that this is the mark of a truly accomplished journalist.  A journalist should write or report on a story and be able to capture interest without hyping it up or cheapening it with misleading statements meant to sensationalize the story.

We need to focus on making our news comprehensive; there should not be one niche of stories reported on because of the dollars generated.  More money comes from celebrity stories, but that lets too much real news slip through the cracks.  News needs to be proportional.  It needs to meet many aspects of life and events in order to truly inform the public.  That's our job: inform the public.  Without proportionally and comprehensively covering all of these stories, we might as well just all be celebrity bloggers who never change out of our pajamas and dropped out of high school sophomore year.  It's important to report with integrity and part of that, I think, is reporting on stories that might not generate the most dollars simply because they are important to inform the public about.  Journalists have a responsibility to simply cut the hype as much as they can.