Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 15, 2020

Tomorrow we’ll have analysis of how it broke and an opinion on why it broke and whose fault it was.

Best plan I have had in years. I broke the antenna. I can’t get regular TV. All my news comes across the radio. Much less stress! Even with the other day when we would get the Emergency Signal Roaring every two hours for a day and a half!

I just love “Breaking News” that happened two days ago. That’s well past Breaking News shelf life. Anything older than 2 hours is old news.

Waaaay overused!

And here’s the latest SOGGY News from Louisiana! The latest SMOKEY News from Sacramento, California — State Politicians are getting tired of second hand smoke. The latest TURN-STYLE News from New York City — Shifty Jones makes city record in being busted 42 times in five days.

Breaks your heart, breaks your wallet, breaks your mind…

…almost as good as “coming right up”…

The news is broken.

in philly, before i gave up on the channel, the ABC affiliate started their evening broadcast with “breaking news” so often i thought it was a part of f their opening music

Lester Holt opens the vast majority of his newscasts with that very term: “Breaking News”

Priceless

CP24 has the red banner on the top of the page saying “BREAKING NEWS” and shows the number of new covid cases. Six cases or sixty, it is breaking news.

It means nothing anymore.

“When everyone is special, no one is” – Dash, The Incredibles

Sturgeon’s Law (look it up) can now be applied to “news”

there is no such thing as ‘breaking news’ anymore – just ‘breaking opinion’ which everyone calls ‘breaking news’ factless, faulty, fictitious, and fruity -the competition to be the “first” and get the most ‘clicks’ with the ’breaking opinion" is high when you compete in the technical world we have now.

They know it’s breaking because they just created it themselves 5 minutes earlier.

no, now they’re called “bombshells”. one per day for the next 50!

I also like, so and so “rips” or “destroys” such and such.

Just not broken enough.

“EXTRA! EXTRA!! Read all about it!”

Many of you are too young to have ever heard that newsboy’s cry … in fact, many of you are too young to know what a newsboy was.

I know, right?

What new news bits are unnoticed while avoiding breaking news, often seemingly used equally to the number of commercial breaks.

The overuse of that term is just one example of why the Media has lost so much credibility these days. Another one is how they spend countless hours in analysis to justify their own opinions instead of just giving us the unvarnished facts.

The problem with breaking news is that, whatever you are watching it on, you need to clean out the broken pieces. That’s why they make tvs amd computers with little drawers- so you can empty the broken pieces.

Too much breaking going on… sigh

Gotta grab your attention somehow: EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! preceded BREAKING NEWS!

If it doesn’t bleed it doesn’t lead.

And later today we will have breaking news that will break in 2 days from now. We broke it first.

That comes after the commercials.

“News” is getting me down, rather watch TCM or an old tv show.

How about the truth?

Breaking News: There is still no cure for mornings.

The truth is no longer breaking news…

The Andy Griffin Show!