Top News #1

The story that I picked that is top news is about Netflix. Netflix decided to split the company into mailing DVD's as one company, Qwikster, and streaming videos as another company, Netflix. By doing this split, it caused many people to cancel their memberships with Netflix because the prices went up, there will be two separate company's which means two separate bills, and it is more complicated.

The company did not do a very good job describing why the charges are more and how it will be good for the consumers. Their communication skills did not satisfy the ones who made Netflix so big and that is why there is controversy and Netflix's number are falling dramatically.

What makes it newsworthy?
This story does have an impact. It will impact every person who is a member of Netflix because there will be an increase in price in order to keep your Netflix account and there are now two parts to Netflix.

It is a little bit immediate. All of a sudden Netflix raised their prices without any warning. The news that is happening now is that they are apologizing for the immediate raise in prices and the change.

This story does have conflict. There is conflict between the people using Netflix and Netflix. Now that Netflix has made changes, the consumers have not been satisfied and are changing their minds about the whole Netflix business and what they are doing.

There are a lot of emotions. The people buying DVD's are upset and angry because they were not aare of this change and it is costing them more money to use it.