Keeping up with the Courier Journal: How Likely Are Kentucky Drivers to Hit Bambi?

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/2016/10/12/how-likely-kentucky-drivers-hit-bambi/91937036/

 Since my family is subscribed to the Courier Journal and I’m so busy, I opted to keep up with the Courier Journal statistics. I am writing about today’s main news and an outlier from the main focus- “How Likely Are Kentucky Drivers to Hit Bambi”. Most of today’s news was about Haiti or Hurricane Matthew’s effects and this article does not belong with the group. This article on ‘Bambi’ is anything but focused. The writing is about you and your chances to hit a deer in Kentucky, but it also includes statistics from other states/areas and even a claim estimate of the damage that doesn’t belong with the other text. The writer of the article is a Kentucky resident trying to help her fellow citizens, but personally I was more distracted by the statistics of your 1 in 18,955 chance of hitting a deer in Hawaii. I first read this article and got the different statistics confused- I couldn’t even find the one pertaining to us Kentuckians. The article even refers to deer as ‘Bambi’, the Disney movie star. We have looked at 5 newspapers/online data that the courier journal produces and this writing is simply not up to par. It is unfocused, not very relevant, and childlike. I do think the writer did a good job convincing the audience that is common to hit deer anywhere in the United States but ‘paradise’ and the cost to fix the damage is anything but cheap. The author didn't do a very good job making the important interesting, but so far within this project Courier Journal usually has high standards for their journalism and I look forward to catching up on the news every morning.