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  KETV News Director Weighs In With 'What's News'

  Posted: March 13th, 2007, 4:55am CDT by Sean Weide

  a href="http://www.ketv.com"KETV/a (Cox Channel 9) News Director Rose Ann Shannon is the author of this month's "Profiles in Journalism" feature in March issue of the a href="http://www.omahapressclub.com"Omaha Press Club /anewsletter.br /br /Shannon poses the question of whether the death of Anna Nicole Smith was a "big news story." br /br /You really don't have to tell me what you think," Shannon writes. "I have a pretty good idea. It used to be when somebody told you they only watched public television or 'MacNeil /Lehrer NewsHour' or 'the Hallmark Hall of Fame,' you pretty much had to take them at their word. Not anymore. That was before the Internet -- before you had the ability to choose what your own personal newscast or newspaper would look like."br /br /Shannon relates her personal experience of the afternoon when The Associated Press sent a news alert that Smith had died.br /br /"I relayed the news to a couple of people in the newsroom," Shannon writes. "I saw jaws drop. Let me say that again: I saw jaws drop. It is not often as a journalist you can report something that causes jaws to drop. In fact, I may be able to count those moments on one hand."br /br /To read more of "Profiles in Journalism: What's News? You Decide," a href="http://www.buildimage.com/opc/newsletter.pdf"click here and scroll to page 3/a.