What Makes it News?

The news story that I selected was about two teenagers at a Colorado middle school getting injured by a school shooting. I got this article from Yahoo news at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_on_re_us/us_colo_school_shooting;_ylt=ArqskxB92fxEbzpsrWC0RPtvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTJvbnE0MXByBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMjI0L3VzX2NvbG9fc2Nob29sX3Nob290aW5nBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawMydGVlbnNpbmp1cmU-. This news story is newsworthy because it involves the shooting of children which is something our society needs to prevent and this news story sheds some light on that issue. Some news values associated with this news article are the values of timeliness and conflict. Also it has the news values of unexpectedness and negativity. Too make this story more localized the writer might say something like it what is to stop this event to happening at a local middle school and calling for more gun protection laws.