news value is generally used to select stories for print, broadcast, blogs, and web portals, including those that focus on a specific topic. to a large degree, news value depends on the target audience. for example, a minor story in the united states is more likely to appear on cnn than a minor story in the middle east which might be more likely to appear on al jazeera simply due to the geographic distribution of the channels' respective audiences. it is a matter of debate whether this means that either network is less than objective, and that controversy is even more complicated when considering coverage of political stories for different audiences that have different political demographics (as with fox news vs. msnbc).