Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor conference – Texas Rail Advocates (CBS 11 News, 12/09/2006)
Summary:
CBS News 11 posted a video recapping the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor conference held in January 2005. This source gives a visual perspective to how healthy high-speed rail is in Texas, one of the front running corridors for funds.
Topic:
Category:
journalistic
What is it?
a video
Publication Information:
The name of the publication is CBS News 11. The video was posted on December 9, 2006 in Dallas, Texas.
Author:
no author listed
Location:
Accessed:
March 9, 2009
Support:
Mark Johnson, a reporter for CBS News 11
Bill Blaydes, a member of the Dallas City Council
Tommy Merritt, a Republican Representative from Texas
Mark Johnson narrated the entire video. Bill Blaydes said that development on high-speed rail has been waiting for too long. Tommy Merritt said the U.S. should utilize the high-speed rail technology of other countries. He also said that for high-speed rail to work, it has to be on time.
Audience and Agenda:
There were over 670,000 visitors to CBS News 11′s website in the month of January. Most of the visitors are looking for general news on Texas. They use CBS News 11 for general stories, pictures, video, and audio. They expect professional journalistic articles that provide a wide audience with general information.
CBS News 11 is funded by CBS. It is addressing a general Texan audience. It is trying to provide general, interesting news on Texas that won’t upset advertisers.
Usefulness:
This source is in a regional context, focusing on Texas. This video was produced by a team from CBS News 11 to entertain people and provide them with popular news from Texas. It’s a signal that high-speed rail is becoming more politically palatable in Texas.
It is addressing an audience that doesn’t know too much about high-speed rail. That makes it a very good source for a national population that isn’t used to high-speed rail. It is making the argument that it’s time for high-speed rail in Texas. There are a lot of regions in the U.S. making that claim, so the federal government should pay attention.
It leaves out information about other possible high-speed rail projects. News companies in Texas probably just want to focus entirely on the state perspective. It also doesn’t talk about the price, which is probably because high-speed rail feasibility planning has been non-existent until recently.
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Works Cited:
Google Video. <http://video.google.com/>
CBS 11 News. <http://cbs11tv.com/>
“cbs11tv.com.” Quantcast. <http://www.quantcast.com/cbs11tv.com>
Filed under: Journalistic
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