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Locut0s

(6,154 posts) Wed May 29, 2013, 04:56 PM May 2013

Everything is "Breaking News"...

I could be wrong but I don't remember news organisations labeling every new piece of information on a story Breaking News with flashy yellow banners and an air of false importance. Wasn't there a time before the big TV news organisations became mostly entertainment when the term Breaking News was reserved for important must know stories?

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Everything is "Breaking News"... (Original Post) Locut0s May 2013 OP

I Always Liked the Old 'Daily Show' Tag, Sir The Magistrate May 2013 #1

Some of it is just breaking wind dipsydoodle May 2013 #2

Perhaps they should re-brand it as "Breathless News" kentauros May 2013 #3

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)

1. I Always Liked the Old 'Daily Show' Tag, Sir

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2013, 04:58 PM

May 2013

"When news breaks --- we fix it."

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

2. Some of it is just breaking wind

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2013, 05:09 PM

May 2013

aka space fillers.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

3. Perhaps they should re-brand it as "Breathless News"

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2013, 05:19 PM

May 2013

because that's certainly how they report it most times.

"Braking News" would be a better one. Maybe one of their graphic designers there will misspell it one of these days

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