BREAKING NEWS: CNN to quit with the constant 'Breaking News'

[TheProle]

CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as "breaking news"

CNN's new boss Chris Licht says that beginning today, CNN has added a "Breaking News” guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network and cable news writ-large.

Why it matters: Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav have made it a priority to dial back on partisan programming at CNN in favor of traditional journalism.

“We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers,” he said in the note obtained by Axios.

"You’ve already seen far less of the 'Breaking News' banner across our programming."

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines

[Liberal In Texas]

1. About damn time.

When you get "real" breaking news you don't pay attention with the thing being so overused.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. FOX News uses them to keep viewers pumped with endorphines--a constant "runner's high"

[Sneederbunk]

2. Wonder if the local stations are paying attention.

[FloridaBlues]

3. About time.

[Initech]

4. About damn time!

I'm tired of like every story being labeled "breaking news"! All news is breaking news! We don't have to constantly be reminded of it!

[El Supremo]

5. I love the title of your post!

[TheProle]

6. Thanks. It pretty much wrote itself.

[momta]

40. I do too, but...

I admit that when I first looked at the link I expected to see The Onion

[OnDoutside]

7. Shouldn't this be in latest news ?

[IcyPeas]

8. well, it's a good start. weren't they recently made fun of for doing that by someone?

maybe at the White House Correspondents Dinner? Trevor Noah maybe? I seem to remember someone joking about CNN's Breaking News banner. 🤔

[Raven123]

9. Now stop obsessing on one topic. There's lots of news to report

[underpants]

10. It became a bit of a joke when we were all here during the lockdown.

My wife would say “Everything isn’t BREAKING NEWS Wolf”.

[BigmanPigman]

24. When Jon Stewart was hosting The Daily Show

he made fun of everything being "breaking news" on CNN.

[AngryOldDem]

11. About damn time.

The phrase has become meaningless. Now if MSNBC would do the same.

[momta]

42. Yes! MSNBC is bad about it.

And they're my main news source so it really sucks.

[malaise]

12. Thanks Trevor

You rule

[Tetrachloride]

13. Cheers to CNN. gives me a reason to turn on TV -- maybe

[Traildogbob]

14. With limitless

Mass shootings, that will be tough to do.

[unblock]

15. And the cycle continues. Responsible "objective" journalism when democrats are in charge

And biased right wing propaganda when republicans are in charge.

Lucy promising to hold the ball for Charlie for real this time

[ancianita]

16. Guess Trevor Noah's joke worked!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

43. And Stephen Colbert's former producer.

Who you work with matters.

[ancianita]

45. Right? Now if Hollywood will get in there & produce the Jan 6 Comte's multimedia in its hearings.

[Novara]

17. Please tell msnbc

I am so sick of seeing BREAKING NEWS on the crawl when it happened days ago. It's fucking ridiculous.

[Rebl2]

32. Exactly!

I will see true breaking news on msnbc and turn it on hours later and it’s still breaking news even if there is no update to original story.

[Raine]

19. GOOD! 👍 nt

[lpbk2713]

20. They should hold the (R)s feet to the fire.

I hope this doesn't mean they will let them slide by and
not hold them accountable just because it looks "nice".

[spudspud]

21. WTG Trevor Noah!

Deserves all the credit for mocking CNN at the correspondent's dinner regarding this very thing and calling out Chris Licht by name, saying "...did they just put it on during the OJ chase and then forget how to get rid of it? The news is not always breaking!"

[bucolic_frolic]

22. "truth-tellers, focused on informing" sounds like "calling balls and strikes" both-siderism

Which is what got us into this mess in the first place. Journalism should be so much more, as it once was before corporate sanitizing, offend-no-one in the name of profits.

[towerbum]

23. WRITE LESS REPUBLICAN BULL SHIT - MORE DEMOCRAT!

But, that's to much to ask of the media , don't furnish enough click bait & their damn paywall's !

[BigmanPigman]

25. Brooke Baldwin recently wrote that Licht

has the anchors focus on mass shooting events as a ratings grabber but abandon the "news" when time has passed since the ratings drop. Licht is a dick. I bet he is behind all the Biden bashing too.

[Orrex]

26. About 30 years too late, maybe?

Good for them, but holy shit what took so long?

[Pepsidog]

27. Good.

[cstanleytech]

28. "dial back on partisan programming at CNN" CNN is Switzerland compared to FOX who is more

like a country from the late 1930s that is north of Switzerland.

[liberal N proud]

29. I will believe it when I see it

All news uses is sensationalism

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

36. Agreed, sensational sells, think of the ad sponsors, if it bleeds it leads, eh

Not holding my breath

[mwooldri]

30. Good. "This is CNN, breaking wind..."

That's what I say when I heard that phrase "breaking news".

If CNN wanted to be original it could bring back the News Flash...

[CloudWatcher]

31. Breaking *the* News

Oh, I've always inserted a "the" when seeing that!

Boycott yellow journalism and infotainment. Insist on actual News.

[Marcuse]

33. Bothsiderism is Broken News.

[Piratedog]

34. Wish our local news would do this.

Local mayor gets ingrown toenails. Breaking news

[Joinfortmill]

35. Good

[LiberalFighter]

37. I haven't watched CNN in ages.

I also change to something else after the local CBS evening news comes on with Nora going high stress.

I also avoid newsnation with Abrams and their other so called unbiased news. I don't get why the local station even push viewers to watch them when it would be during their own paid programming.

[ificandream]

38. Fox was the one that started this.

But they'll never stop. Their so-called "news" is just frilly packaged b.s.

[DFW]

39. FAKING NEWS: Fox to quit Faking the News!!

Now THAT one would be so lacking in credibility that even diehard Foxsuckers would catch it as a joke immediately.

[TimeToGo]

41. Thank goodness.

[jimlup]

44. I've gotten so that I just ignore the phrase "Breaking News!"

It is so over used that it is worthless.

ABC always leads their Nightly News with "We have breaking news as we come on the air!" Really, I most likely already have known for several hours if not days. Sigh...

[RipVanWinkle]

46. Breaking wind

Several years ago, I got so tired of hearing “Breaking News”, it all just seemed like breaking wind to me.

[bhikkhu]

47. I still can't watch them, having been raised on journalists who actually just reported the news

Hearing an anchor go off on his feelings or whatever, that's just not what I expect from the news. Of course it's probably a reaction against the other side which does that incessantly (in the other direction), but still - if it's not journalism I don't see the point. Give me the facts and I'll form my own opinion. That seems to be so out of fashion now that just watching the news on TV makes me feel old, so I don't do it.

Maybe this is a step in the right direction.