Palin talks...so, why is this "Breaking News"?

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

It used to be that "Breaking News" would be an earthquake, a bridge collapse or a government's violent overthrow. Now, if "W" gets the sniffles it's "Breaking News." "Breaking diversion," maybe, but nothing that's going to alter my route home from work, or otherwise shake the world.

Also...especially in the smaller markets, have you ever noticed how "news" conveniently "breaks" just in time for the local news shows...at, say, 5 or 6 pm? It's certainly courteous of news to wait until the anchors are already in their chairs and ready to go...rather than, say, 3 am on Sunday...isn't it?

[Fla Dem]

1. Yeah, but this is a train wreck waiting to happen. n/t

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

2. Still waiting for that Weather Channel interview...

Keith said to expect it soon. Palin will then be doing a guest appearance on Ghost Hunters...looking for the lost spirit of the once-proud Republican Party.

[janethussein]

3. That Idiot is the

laughing stock of the United States of America. Even her own Party can't stand her.

[lunatica]

4. It's transfixing to have the chance to watch a major wreck as it's happening.

n/t

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

8. Is that what the fixation is all about?

Is it like watching one of those live, high-speed car chases on an expressway? If that's what we have here, I'm ready to see her stopped by those spike-things, and then wrestled to the ground.

[renie408]

5. I heard Palin was giving an exclusive interview to The Warrior News, my son's high school

newspaper. The kids are really excited.















(that's a joke, BTW)

[TahitiNut]

6. How else would we get our fix on the heroism of Joe the Plumber??

Where's Whore Ratio Alger when we need him?

[crispini]

7. They've managed to hide the string coming out of her back.

THAT's "breaking news" :D

[spanone]

9. because our news channels are now run just like 'American Idol'...

[Lumpsum]

10. If it bleeds, it leads.

[Javaman]

11. because she actually finished a sentance!!!

:rofl:

[malaise]

12. Well given the pitch of her voice

they should use shattering news since she destroys eardrums, glass, peace of mind and makes dogs and cats scatter.

[TexasObserver]

13. Breaking News means "breaking" but not "news"

Therefore, anything that breaks their standard 15 minutes of news repeated word for word, it's BREAKING NEWS, because it's breaking into the normal spiel.

Yes, it's stupid, but that's what it is.