Can someone fucking explain to CNN what it means to be "breaking news?"

[Gravitycollapse]

Because they've had the same breaking news for 9 goddamn days and it's becoming a level of comedy I never thought possible.

Who is running the CNN website?

[malaise]

1. It is sick

We turned them off last night - it was too much. No rational person should listen to a word from those morons. They are dangerous because 'breaking news' is supposed to have meaning.

[Mojo Electro]

2. IT COULD BE ANYWHERE ON THESE 2 RED LINES!

[Lint Head]

3. Aliens?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. That's some hair! nt

[ElboRuum]

19. Oh, it's so totally aliens...

No, this guy knows what he's talking about. Fucking aliens, man.

[IdaBriggs]

30. Hey, I called "Aliens" last week!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018587679

[Loudly]

4. It just means Step Right Up And Buy A Ticket To See The Show. n/t

[woo me with science]

5. Cable news is a wasteland of fluff and corporate propaganda,

and now this administration is enabling corporate power over the internet.

[hrmjustin]

6. Cnn still thinks the presidential race is too close to call.

[jakeXT]

7. They have been voting for 9 days in Crimea ?

[eShirl]

8. there's nothing else newsworthy going on

[gerogie2]

9. Why are you reading a corporate media website?

The corporate media uses this to generate viewers which in turn generates revenue. The only purpose for corporate media is to make a profit. Either through eyeballs, web clicks or page views.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. What/who is a CNN?

Who watches that crap anyway?

[Mister Ed]

11. "Meanwhile, in Spain...

...Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still seriously dead. Doctors report no change in his condition."

[Brigid]

22. I'll never forget that!

They kept this gag going for weeks, even months, after that poor guy was gone!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. It's not just CNN. It's ALL MSM. nt

[calimary]

14. Sometimes it's more like breaking wind.

[pangaia]

26. I can see that at the bottom of the CNN screen..

"Breaking Wind"

Airplane still lost!!! Crimea still Crimea !! Ukraine still has a yellow and blue flag(I think)

Every time I go to the Y, 2 of the 5-6 TV's have CNN ( hey, they COULD have FOX. who's complaining) The last 3 times ALWAYS the airplane-- yesterday for 60 minutes while I'm on the Eliptical X-trainer-- the same woman in a red dress. Fortunately there is no sound.
SO I can watch a basketball game on my own monitor. Of course, to stretch out the story, for those of you who have used such a machine to keep your heart working (which at 71 I do), one can get dizzy trying to watch a TV screen 18 inches from your face while going up and down, up and down, up and down.
So I look up to see what else is going on-- Still the woman in the red dress..

[calimary]

27. This Just In… Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD!!!

[pangaia]

33. I know from where you stole that...

[DesertDiamond]

15. I really think that understanding of the English language is falling apart for many Americans.

[uppityperson]

16. Special Bulletin. A made for tv movie, 1983, about media coverage of events.

[DeSwiss]

17. I have to say......

...if anyone is still watching CNN or any of those other fake news programs, then you deserve what you get. Seriously.

- Because the only way they can get better, is to leave the air altogether. So stop watching and maybe they will......

K&R

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[MindMover]

18. omg, I cannot stop laughing ....

[DreamGypsy]

20. Breaking glass is the process...

...by which broken glass is created.

Breaking legs is the process by which broken legs are created.

Breaking news is the process by which ........

[AtheistCrusader]

21. The Onion nailed it.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/malaysian-airlines-expands-investigation-to-includ,35524/

[malaise]

29. Saw that

Freaking perfect

[DRoseDARs]

23. Doge: So news. Happening.

eom

[oldandhappy]

24. I don't know how the anchors cope.

CNN ran hours late yesterday on the missing plane and had no new information and ran the breaking news banner constantly.

[whopis01]

25. But it is accurate once you realize that "Breaking News" is a verb and not a noun...

If CNN runs the same thing over and over again and calls it news of any type when there is clearly nothing new there at all, that sounds like a pretty broken form of news to me - so if they want to label that with the title "CNN: Breaking News" I don't see anything incorrect about that.

[steve2470]

28. latest juicy rumor ? nt

[tarheelsunc]

31. BREAKING NEWS: CNN read DU, changes tagline to "DEVELOPING STORY". eom

[AlinPA]

32. Their ad: "THIS is CNN."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/cnn-hong-kong-map-11000-miles.html