Do you remember when "Breaking News" actually WAS "breaking news"?

Question

I remember when we used to hear those words and come running to hear about it. Now, everything is "breaking news" and I've gotten too old to run anyway!

Answer 1

Yeah, I sure do. The most impressive breaking news I ever saw was the assassination of JFK some...GULP...44 years ago this November 22. It's pretty funny when you watch any of the news stations today. "The Situation Room" on CNN has the same "this breaking news just in" every five minutes. Pathetic really.

Answer 2

I think your question is misunderstood. Whether news is 'Breaking News' is not defined by how people can or cannot relate to it or how important or unimportant they find it. Your point is whether breaking news is actually news that is just happened. Sadly, I find television programmes like ITV's London News boast 'Breaking News' that isn't. A few days ago its presenter Alistair Stewart excitedly reported news of some court case or other as if it was hot off the press, but it was a story that had already been reported on Radio5Live at least 2 hours earlier. If you want breaking news in Britain, radio is hard to beat as they monitor all the news agencies.

Answer 3

I was thinking about that yesterday when a 'breaking news" thing popped up and it was nothing. Guess the last I think I remember was in the 70s, maybe later, but I worked two jobs and didn't get to watch of that. I really cannot think of what was the last breaking news. Maybe when Reagan was shot. Take care. Great question. Hold on Britney just had a drink!

Answer 4

What is portrayed as "breaking news" is pathetic. I saw one on the other day, and it was about a fire in China! While that was really important for the people in that building and their families, it was CHINA, and I doubt most people living in America had any personal connection to that event whatsoever...that isn't breaking news, at least not in the US! Another time, I saw one about a huge traffic pile up in N Dakota--well, I live in PA, so why do I need to know that so urgently? I stopped listening to the news-it just aggravates me anyway. Why must every news story be named and presented as a cliffhanger? Coming up at 10, how this spoon could kill your child...now back to Ugle Betty.

Answer 5

Sometimes it still is. The last "Breaking News" we saw locally was when another 2 Philadelphia police officers were shot, which is something like 6 in the last month, and one fatally. But I do know what you mean. They seem to break in for a lot of stuff that can wait until the regularly scheduled news show.

Answer 6

properly i do not comprehend how tax cuts = jobs interior the first position if a employer is making say 421.849billion income gross sales (what Walmart makes) and could pay their workers $8-$20 relying on the placement they have notwithstanding the CEO Mike Duke is making 35million greenback each and each and every year how does reducing taxes make jobs? they have already got the money to bigger extra human beings... does a CEO extremely favor to make 35million money? do they artwork 10x tougher then the guy boxing each and each and every of the products? why do not they employ extra those with that money they arn't spending already? easy you do not employ human beings once you do not choose human beings taxes do not count number number

Answer 7

Yep, that's how it was when Hippies roamed the Earth.