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"Breaking News"

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freddyb590

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Friday, 5:45am... I turn off my alarm clock and turn on the TV.

No sooner do I hit the clicker, then I see the "Breaking News" graphic on the screen. I sit up, thinking that there is already something important happening in the world.

The oh-so-important story: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are engaged.

I think this is the only time I ever jumped up and yelled at my TV: "What the *&@$?!?"

I always thought "breaking news" was to be somewhat important. (Then again, I guess my life has changed significantly, now knowing that I have no shot at all getting Katie to go out with me this weekend.)
 
> Friday, 5:45am... I turn off my alarm clock and turn on the
> TV.
>
> No sooner do I hit the clicker, then I see the "Breaking
> News" graphic on the screen. I sit up, thinking that there
> is already something important happening in the world.
>
> The oh-so-important story: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are
> engaged.
>
> I think this is the only time I ever jumped up and yelled at
> my TV: "What the *&@$?!?"
>
> I always thought "breaking news" was to be somewhat
> important. (Then again, I guess my life has changed
> significantly, now knowing that I have no shot at all
> getting Katie to go out with me this weekend.)
<font color=green> I think they led with it on the Today Show's opening.They probably had a script faxed to them.</font>
 
Freddyb590 was watching TV at 5:45 A.M. (I suspect EDT) on Friday morning (June 17th):

> No sooner do I hit the clicker, then I see the "Breaking
> News" graphic on the screen. I sit up, thinking that there
> is already something important happening in the world.
>
> The oh-so-important story: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are
> engaged.
>
> I think this is the only time I ever jumped up and yelled at
> my TV: "What the *&@$?!?"

Were you watching E??

That's the only channel where the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes engagement should have been headlined as "Breaking News".

Otherwise, it could have been mentioned without the "Breaking News" trappings as: "Well, perhaps it was inevitable considering their recent behavoir, but Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are formally engaged. We have a report they got engaged very early this morning, some hours ago, in Paris".
 
>
> Were you watching E??
>

No, but close... I was watching WHDH-TV.
 
It was an NBC.

Am I the only one who is absolutley sick and tired of hearing this nonsense on all the channels?

I think i'd rather hear a rerun of the Michael Jackson trial stuff than this...<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TXengineer on 06/19/05 04:26 AM.</FONT></P>
 
My biggest Pet Peeve in TV News is "Breaking News" or "News Alert". Nationally... the news/talk outlets use "breaking news" at every turn, the financial channels use "News Alert" if there's a stock price change, E Entertainment uses it if someone gets engaged. Locally... WPRI Tv uses "breaking news" as a daily lead in practice, followed by "developing story". They actually broke in not long ago, when there was a mill fire in West Warwick, and said something to the effect of "we have a developing, breaking news story"... and I guess that was supposed to be the cue this was a "for real" breaking news story. It's pretty silly. Just deliver the news and if there IS a BREAKING NEWS story, say it, and people will pay attention. And I don't mean to criticize WPRI; 10 & 12 do it as well, just not as a programming philosophy.
 
You're right. That's not Breaking News. That's just BS. Breaking News should be something that's gonna affect a lot of people. I.E. A 20 car pile-up on I-95, a tornado coming towards Newton, a hijack airplane crashed into the WTC, etc, etc, etc.

And maybe use Breaking News if a local sports team wins the championship game. It means get your car off the road otherwise someone's gonna flip it over and burn it. <P ID="signature">______________
~Jay Clark~
</P>
 
E! isn't even on the air at 5:45 in the morning. They run Bloomberg Finacial Network Monday-Friday 5AM-8AM just like USA used to.<P ID="signature">______________
~Jay Clark~
</P>
 
Integrity?

> It was an NBC.
>
> Am I the only one who is absolutley sick and tired of
> hearing this nonsense on all the channels?

No, I'd love to see stations try to stand out by *not* crying wolf. But in this age of the death of localism and call letters (WBZ) only the flash is going to work.

"This is CBS 4, WBZ-TV Boston, where breaking news is for the important stuff and not for celebrity engagements!"

WHDH: "More alleged news in just a moment!"
 
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