Dave Weigel has a post re: how "Breaking News"
has become a joke:
“It got trivialized and people couldn’t unring the bell,” says Craig Allen, a professor at Arizona State and a historian of TV news. “It’s just horrible now. We’ve got TVs on the wall I walk past in the morning. My eye is trained to notice a ‘BREAKING’ alert and pay more attention. So is yours. But half the time I see an alert, and it turns out it’s somebody announcing an announcement of an announcement of a news conference.
I bitched about this a while ago, albeit sexier
(duh) than Weigel:
"Breaking News" has to actually be important news. President gets shot, planes fly into buildings, Kam Sing takes egg foo young off it's Runch Special menu. Come the fuck on.
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