I'm old enough to remember...

[SHRED]

...when "Breaking News" actually meant something.

[Aristus]

1. Even at age seven or so, when there was an abrupt change on the TV screen,

followed by "We interrupt this program..." I remember thinking "Uh-oh..."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's a permanent chyron now.

Because some kind of shit is always hitting the fan.

[unblock]

3. In all fairness, the news really is broken these days....

[ploppy]

4. Now it's

like the little boy who cried wolf. It is so annoying.

[bearsfootball516]

5. Lol. CNN is the worst about it.

Everything is Breaking News for them.

[True Dough]

6. BREAKING NEWS

[SHRED]

7. BWAHAHAHA

[smirkymonkey]

10. Hilarious!

I really wish I could find a website that did nothing but parody and make fun of Trump via skits, memes, videos, songs, etc. I would be on it 24/7 because humor seems to be the only thing that helps me to cope with this disaster of a presidency.

[lunatica]

13. Hahahahaha!

Hahahahaha!

[marybourg]

8. I 'm old enough to remember when

news came on at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock and not all day.

[FakeNoose]

9. Remember the Iran hostage crisis in 1979?

I think that's what started it all. The major news networks discovered that people would tune in for anything at all, if they thought something was happening in Iran. It made Ted Koppel's career.

After that, it was breaking news for every little thing. The news media even had logo's created for every crisis, plane wreck, big storm, insurrection, etc. etc. It got so tedious because we just carom from one unending crisis to the next.

[lunatica]

11. It depends on your definition of breaking.

The difference is the news is breaking us now.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. Me too when Walter Cronkite interrupted television broadcasts. ......

Or Edwin Newman, Huntley and Brinkley, John Chancellor......the classics of news.

[hunter]

14. Television news is worthless. I quit many years ago.

It's not the "News," it's a vehicle to keep you watching the advertising and propaganda, much of it subliminal. Pharmaceutical and political advertising is especially offensive, especially when it's dressed up as actual content.

Trump would be a nobody if not for all the free coverage television "news" gave him.

I read my news -- two local newspapers and a handful of mainstream news media sites, national and international web, that are free, available by subscription, available from my local public library, or supported by donations.