Can we please stop using the word "breaking" for every minute piece of news that comes out?

[Initech]

Seriously I feel like it's the most overused word in the English language at this point. The only thing that's going to be "breaking" is my monitor when I see another headline with the word "breaking" in it. I wish we could do to the word "breaking" what Lewis Black did to the CNN scroll bar.

[William769]

1. And LBN Forum?

[Croney]

3. I just checked, and threads in LBN don't have the word

BREAKING in the titles. It's not needed elsewhere either. Often, the subject already has three threads about it anyway.

[William769]

4. A joke anyone?

Maybe I need a new audience.

[Croney]

5. Sorry, I got the joke but responded poorly. LOL

[William769]

9. I'll take that!

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. No way!

If no one uses that word, how will we know that we must drop everything and give our complete attention???

[LakeArenal]

7. To hear about the crushing, humiliation, destroying that it never is?

[Effete Snob]

6. Initech post OBLITERATES people who post in the video forum

Yeah, I don't get it either.

It's not like they are standing by watching the Hindenburg crash and waiting for further developments.

But, it is an obnoxious attention-getting device used by, well...

[Initech]

10. Especially on things that we already knew.

No, Kanye running for president or Elon reinstating Trump's Twitter account do not deserve "breaking" status. We already knew these things were going to happen, because these people are insane and completely predictable.

[LakeArenal]

8. Click bait.

[liberal N proud]

11. Sensationalism

[inthewind21]

12. Watch

Outfoxed and you'll learn where the "Breaking News" banner came from, what it was originally intended for and what it has become.

[sarcasmo]

13. I blame the Krassenstein brothers.

[Emrys]

14. Well, I agree, but it's a syndrome on any busy, somehow competitive forum with long-term users.

It's a process of escalation.

Meticulously researched, measured posts with un-eyecatching headlines sink like a stone, whereas the likes of "TURN ON [Channel Whatever] NOW!!!", "I CAN'T BELIEVE [whoever] JUST SAID THAT", or teases like "Let me make it [to whatever degree] clear" get loads of clicks and hover around the top of GD for hours, not least from people checking in and complaining about lack of specificity or asking WTH the OP's on about.

[Magoo48]

15. BREAKING: TFG Humiliated-- Sources say...

[Oneironaut]

16. I use "Breaking News" when I post about my lunch on Twitter

The world must know when I’m eating a sandwich.

[TwilightZone]

17. Maybe they're mirroring MSNBC.

Everything, and I mean *everything*, is breaking news on MSNBC.