News Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAYl3ofhvE&safe=active


This story was broadcasted on channnel 4 news, and involves a teenage youtube star being accused of sexual assult, this then caused CONFLICT over the social media, allowing this story to be broadcasted globally. Also in this news story Sam Pepper the youtuber himself is accused of being the VILLAN and the young teenage girls who discussed thier experiences with the youtuber are seen as brave and HEROIC as they allow their stories to be shared globally. This is a typical news story which would attract the younger audience as it involves a celebrity that they would be interested in, and due to it being broadcasted at 5'oclock it would attract the teenage audience.

This story also did create a "SCARE FACTOR" as it allowed people to become worried about the type of people they connect with a view online, this is also shown to be soft celebrity news as it involves no form of death or war.