What is Breaking News these Days?
I must not be a good American because I don’t care when Jay Leno’s show is on. I also don’t care which baseball players used steroids or when. Nor do I care that one of the judges of American Idol is leaving the show.
Even though CNN felt each of the topics was “Breaking News”, to me they are neither important nor interesting in the big picture. “Breaking News” just isn’t what it used to be. Today “Breaking News” just means something, anything has happened.
Even though CNN felt each of the topics was “Breaking News”, to me they are neither important nor interesting in the big picture. “Breaking News” just isn’t what it used to be. Today “Breaking News” just means something, anything has happened.
posted by pissed off patricia at 5:28 AM
8 Comments:
You should be reading my new blog, It's News 2 Them™ at http://itsnews2them.blogspot.com/
Then you can get the truly important breaking news from the tabloids instead of these impostors like CNN pretending they are the tabloids.
Totally agree. I haven't seen any real "breaking news" since "W" started bombing Afghanistan back in 2001. Real "breaking news" should involve declaration of war or that ilk.
OK, maybe the Underpants Bomber could be breaking news. But I draw the line there.
Anything to alarm the masses. They go live on the scene with very little info. They gather the info LIVE as we watch. They are as clueless to the events as we are. They run amok with speculation, speculative conclusions, dismissal of all speculative language, then more speculative conclusions.
It's not news, it's capricious distraction.
Capricious Distraction is the name of my new band. Probably.
Breaking News can be anything. I love when Good Morning America uses it for "Dancing With the Stars"
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It is another symptom of dumbing down the mass population ... trivia replacing import.
breaking news is so overused - even when we use at work we laugh
What a great resource!
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