As the news director of a local television station I believe that the topic that I would use for a lead story would be the closing of the city parks three days per week. I believe that with this subject the local people would really want to know this information due to the fact that most of the public probably uses these local parks on a daily or a few day a week basis. The significance of this subject I believe is greater than the fact that a celebrity died. The public can get the information of the celebrity death in many other places rather than on the local news. I believe that it is basically the social responsibility of the local new to get out the local news rather than celebrity news. There are tabloid, blogs, and many other ways to get celebrity news across to the public that looks for this news. I believe it would almost border on a legal side that if this information could be put across this way that it should be shown. This certain information on the city parks closing three days per week can also be put in the newspapers for the public that does not watch the local news on a daily basis. There would be many advantages and disadvantages of choosing one over the other for the local news station also. The advantages is getting the information across to the audience that is in need of the news. The people that use the parks on a daily or a fews times a week basis would know either whether they want to protest the parks closing three days a week or would know that they are not allowed in the parks on these certain days. With this information put across it would say many people a lot of their time wasted if they did not have the information. The disadvantages of airing this subject instead of the celebrity death would mean that they audience that they have viewing may be less if they air the information about the parks closing. With choosing between the two subjects they could always take the story of the celebrity death and do a shorter...