CNN going overboard with "breaking news"?

[True Dough]

Anyone else notice this? It used to be that "breaking news" was literally something extraordinary that happened moments earlier. For a while now, CNN has been starting every hourly show with "breaking news" that recaps the previous show's breaking news (maybe the previous two or three shows). Then they come back from commercial and put "breaking news" back on the screen (with the accompanying sound effects) and then proceed to analyze news that broke hours earlier.

It sorta irks me.

[marybourg]

1. The other morning my husband commented:

"Breaking news for a breaking country".

[eleny]

2. The time of day is BN on CNN

[bathroommonkey76]

3. Gerard's been saying this for years.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[True Dough]

5. I'd never heard of him before

but I definitely agree with his sentiment!

[bathroommonkey76]

8. He was a writer for David Letterman.

[True Dough]

9. Ah yes! I know him to see him.

Thanks for that.

[spanone]

4. they're cashing in on trump. he keeps supplying the laughs and gaffes and they sell ad time

brilliant

[Eugene]

6. At CNN, "Breaking News" means it's the top of the hour

and we don't have a Special Report scheduled.

[jalan48]

7. Hype Equals Money

[miyazaki]

10. Ya, and then they'll interupt the breaking news with a commercial break.

I used to work with a brow beating anchor who almost never missed an opportunity to heighten her newscasts with supposed breaking news when her co-anchor was off. It was mostly all for show and self indulgence and a means to dramatize her audition tape.