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Dumbest "Breaking News"

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No disrespect to anyone who may have been involved, or have family/friends in the terrible situation @ VT..... HOWEVER I must try and lighten up everyone's spirit's!! The mood at the radio station this morning.... has not been the way it is this morning, since 9/11!!!!

With that being said....... Instead of talking about it... like everywhere else, Let's discuss the "Dumbest Breaking News!!" The dumbest things that the network news folks have broken into program for!!

Something that comes to mind right away, from last week, when a few (I THINK it was cnn, and fox news) broke in to report a horse was stuck in the mud!! That's right... A HORSE IN THE MUD!! There were overhead shots.... crews on the ground, pretty heavy coverage!! Does something like this deserve the title "Breaking News??" Discuss other stories that you just had to laugh at and think, "Man, what A slow news day!!"

To all the people on the board, that are actually in radio..... do your part to lighten the mood, and atmosphere at your stations!!
 
In San Antonio, they break in for flood warnings spending at least 30 minutes to an hour at least on that. The dumbest thing about it is that they show dumb people going through the low water crossings thinking they can go across and then having to pay fines for their ignorance for taking away the barricades themselves.

Also, the slightest car accident or traffic jam and they will break in as well for that.
 
...twice there was "special report" status given by CNN of the icing of Atlanta and Dallas freeways, with footage of the drivers of said cities struggling, and sometimes failing, to make their way to work or wherever. Those made certain parties I know in Chicago, Buffalo and Philadelphia laugh themselves silly...
 
A couple of weeks ago, Fox News Channel had a "Breaking News" banner on the screen with the caption: Britney walks out of rehab.

Un-freakin-believable, isn't it?
 
Local stations in both Baltimore and Philadelphia love to do wall-to-wall live coverage of even minor snowstorms. Lots of reporters standing out in the snow telling people over and over not to go out in the snow, hour after hour. What mindless drivel!
 
This is all well and good...but shouldn't it be on the National TV board instead? :)
 
Braves2005 said:
In San Antonio, they break in for flood warnings spending at least 30 minutes to an hour at least on that. The dumbest thing about it is that they show dumb people going through the low water crossings thinking they can go across and then having to pay fines for their ignorance for taking away the barricades themselves.

Also, the slightest car accident or traffic jam and they will break in as well for that.
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Substitute "Phoenix" for "San Antonio" and you have the same situation 8)
 
Anna Nicole Smith's Death and the Custody Circus that ensued. This mindless drivel should have been relegated to the tabloids where the story belonged.
 
A number of years ago Northwest Cable News broke into taped programming for "Breaking News" of a start of a Portland TrailBlazer playoff game. Mind you, not the end of the game, but the start! A scheduled event treated as "Breaking News"!
 
After 9/11, they broke in with a report on...the stock market. When they broke in, I thought it would be some important development about 9/11 itself. But instead it was about rich people losing their money.

In Cincinnati they break in with an hour-long press conference if some ballplayer nobody's heard of gets traded.

One afternoon the ABC affiliate (which at the time was WKRC, as this was before 1996) broke into soaps with footage of UC basketball players getting off the plane while returning home from some dumb game.
 
Last Friday night, the "Breaking News" story on Fox News Channel (Nationwide) was a storm in Dallas/Ft. Worth.

I could see mention of the storm (since KDFW is a Fox O&O station), but continuous coverage on a nationwide channel... That's what LOCAL BROADCASTERS are for...

Of course, if I were in Dallas, I probably wouldn't be watching Fox News for 2 reasons:
1) I'd be watching a local station
2) If it's storming that bad, my satellite receiver is usually out...

The only explanation I can think of is that there was nothing else really to cover (or someone backed out of an interview), and some manager decided "We'll cover the storm, and if the ratings suck, then we can say that we were providing a public service to the community..."

Of course being at the gym, I didn't have ability to change the channel...

Jim
 
Thanks for the "spoiler" for those of us out west...

Although after last night, I'm not surprised.
 
This past weekend: Paris Hilton sentenced to 45 days in jail. I will admit I'm glad the judge is giving her what she deserved, but it's still dumb breaking news.
 
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