BBC breaking news - sensational headlines
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What is breaking news?
Instead of what HAS happened or RECENT events, we get endless speculation, conjecture and above all, waffle about what might happen or could happen if somebody eats lentils for supper!
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How long does news take to break? I ask this because whilst watching television, BBC Breakfast News came on as usual with some breaking news, then two hours later, exactly the same headlines!
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| 22-12-2006 | I know what you mean - you should have heard the media this morning, with the Fog, the plane cancellations.
!!BREAKING NEWS! ALL DOMESTIC FLIGHTS CANCELLED!!!
.....well actually, that was just after a guy from BMI-Baby patiently explained that all of their domestic flights were unaffected. Jo...more | Strawdog |
| 03-11-2006 | The East call it propoganda, the West call it news. As for if it is breaking then that has to do with whether it has time to be reported in the papers I believe. However most news channels will stop calling it breaking news when they have a change of program, eg breakfst news to midday news. | simmy276 |
| 26-10-2006 | I will go even better than "Claify" what I said, I will clarify it.
I did not say at any point that it was not news. My point is that surely the same news story isn 't still, "Breaking" after two hours.
As for your, "Tree hugging hippie" assertion, the BBC has...more | Mark |
| 25-10-2006 | CNN started this craze for "Breaking News". CNN had to do it because they were in commercial competition with other channels. The BBC has no need to do this. It "competes" on an entirely diffent plane. The concept of "breaking news" sickens me. Have they really got a sc...more | Jack the Ripoff |
| 25-10-2006 | Are you mental?
If news is not news then what is it?
please claify your argument or you risk not being taken seriously!
Are you some kind of tree hugging hippie? | concerned BBC executive (terry woga |
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