“BREAKING NEWS” helps to keep viewers’ attention on the TV screen for the next high-dollar commercial.
“Breaking News” is used by media creatures to create excitement in the viewer riveting their attention and thus sell products. There is a problem though; i.e. too much created excitement wears the organism down producing less response and attention, thus reducing product sales-GASP!
News is drama and drama is conflict. It’s entertainment. (I threw my TV away during the OJ trial.) You see this in almost all “news.” Articles have formulaic titles like, “The one weird trick (fill-in-blank.)”, “(Fill-in-blank) hates this!”, “The (fill-in-number) things you must know about(fill-in-blank.)” The wording of everything you hear and read about is focus group tested and psychologically analyzed for attention grabbing. The feeling is if it’s not a tragedy nobody will look at it.
Breaking news is broken. About like everything else in America now.
Why didn’t you put this in Breaking News?
I really do believe the Fox website is to blame because I don’t remember seeing this phenomenon until them. Truly it’s one of the worst “news” websites out there. I laugh at the screaming banshees wailing over the “conservatism”. Really? Where?
Shep Smith is supposedly the guy with his finger on the “Breaking News” button.
Breaking News is totally appropriate for what they are doing.
They are literally wrecking the news business.
“Used to be that breaking news was a major event. You’d be sitting home watching a television show and suddenly the screen would flash “SPECIAL REPORT”. At that moment, your heart would just about stop.”
Ha! That was me as a kid. I was a news junkie, and even when the regular programming would stop and that “Breaking News” still appeared on-screen, I almost had a stroke. Was it WW3? Aliens? Panic!!!
And can they get rid of the SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW scrolls at the bottom of the screen? I can read much faster than that.
Sean Hannity is even worse. Every commercial break: bonnnnnnnnnng OK, everybody, it's a Fox News Alert. Breaking News: Police are STILL* on the hunt for 3 men..."
*Breaking News. "Police are STILL..." ? Does he not get that breaking news should not include STILL--the STILL means the news is STALE. At least Ted Baxter is smart enough not to do it--gotta hand it to him.
Face the facts. We are in the death throes of our civilization. The left has dragged us into the Age of Stupidity, and we are either going to be destroyed, or we are going to "reset" like The Matrix. The news on TV is for 97 IQ betas and gammas, and THIS population is being supplanted/replaced by "Da Gimmedat" community, and the Turd World.
Because American news is broken.
Because the news is broken.
The news is broken. All they tell are stories.
BREAKING NEWS gives them something to talk about between the five STORM TRACKER weather reports during a 22 minute broadcast.
Because it would be stupid to call it “NEWS BREAKING”