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CNN's blatant abuse of the term "Breaking News"
- Thread starter MarcB
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Ain't just CNN. Stations around the country are breaking from over use of this cliche. Too many bulletins give me a Bufferin headache.
I'd like to nominate ch. 11 KKTV in Colorado Springs as another abuser of the term. "Your Breaking News Leader" is their catch-phrase. Give me a break, or should it be brake? We need to put a stop to this cliche. And we should start another list! Nominate your local offenders!
I'd like to nominate ch. 11 KKTV in Colorado Springs as another abuser of the term. "Your Breaking News Leader" is their catch-phrase. Give me a break, or should it be brake? We need to put a stop to this cliche. And we should start another list! Nominate your local offenders!
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FredLeonard
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Haven't we had threads complaining about this before - several times?
The newsies can't help themselves. They don't think about it; they just do what they've always done.
The newsies can't help themselves. They don't think about it; they just do what they've always done.
This is a reason why I don't watch CNN. The only reason I watch anything that has to do with CNN is for the Student News otherwise I don't care too much to watch CNN if I want to watch the national news outside of 5:30 I'll watch Fox.
Fox does the same thing. And Fox has a daily show called (in big block letters) SPECIAL REPORT.
How do they abuse the term "Breaking News" that's just a TV news show that's all it is.
"Special" means it's special. Doing a daily show isn't special. But the name gives the connotations of some kind of breaking news.
Meanwhile, Fox has it's own "Breaking News" graphic that pops up throughout their day, just like CNN. I just saw it.
Breaking news should consist of one of the following:
Shootings that kill several people.
Terrorist attacks.
Passings of popular celebrities.
On the local end, bomb threats and Amber alerts should classify as breaking news, as well as weather emergencies (like a tornado or 2 feet of snow, NOT 0.02 inches of snow.)
-crainbebo
Shootings that kill several people.
Terrorist attacks.
Passings of popular celebrities.
On the local end, bomb threats and Amber alerts should classify as breaking news, as well as weather emergencies (like a tornado or 2 feet of snow, NOT 0.02 inches of snow.)
-crainbebo
Thanks for the clarification. I swore it said FAKING NEWS.
In other words:
*The death of a large number of people, often in a public place, with no guarantee the person who did it won't do it again.
*The death of a large number of people in a public place that often ties in to broader national and international dynamics.
*The death of a person that has spent a lot of time in the news in their own right and who has had an impact on the lives a large number of other people.
*The potential death of a large number of people.
*Weather conditions that can have a significant impact on the daily lives of just about everyone within range of the station.
*The disappearance of one person at the hands of some ******* that may or may not be one of the person's own parents.
One of these things is not like the others. Not to offend people who have had children taken away by assholes, but Amber Alerts are really the codification of Missing White Woman Syndrome, even if the victims can just as often be minority and male.
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Avid Listener
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I can't agree. The only stories that should be "breaking news" that interrupts scheduled programming should be events that would prompt the viewer to take some sort of needed action, like an incoming bunch of Russian ICBMs. Otherwise, a crawl on the bottom advising people who are interested to tune in to an all news channel is sufficient. If the story has no impact on the viewer's current state of safety, then don't interrupt. Not in 2014 when there are hundreds of alternate channels plus the internet. Back in the olden days, when there were three networks and many markets only had one or two channels that had to be all things to all viewers, things were different. But that was then and this is now.
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