Broken "Breaking News"

[Stinky The Clown]

MSNBC just had "breaking" and "shocking" news on their programming:

80 year old Barbara Walters will have heart valve replacement surgery.

This was followed by a celebration of Betty White's SNL turn.

I thoroughly enjoyed Betty's bawdy performances on SNL this past Saturday. It may even have been my week's high point. I wish Ms. Walters only the best: a successful surgery, a quick recovery, and a long life.

NEITHER of these stories are NEWS.

Dead soldiers? What dead soldiers? Oil? Where? Who?

:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

1. and their "crawl" has been "stuck" for about 4 days now

still reporting on the 41% of out of wedlock births..

[seabeyond]

2. ooops, accidently hit unrec. just for honesty sake. hey, 80.... she already

hti the long life, in my book. wink. lol.

[spanone]

3. they hold their breath till they can raise that 'breaking news' banner...it's a cheap trick by now

[phantom power]

4. Amen

[tXr]

5. "Breaking News" -

What MSNBC, et al. are busily engaged in 24/7.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Hahaha

VERY well said!

:thumbsup:

[madmax]

6. +1

[NNN0LHI]

8. They can't show us the Breaking News stories of a school of sharks in the Gulf any more

They used to really like that one.

Don

[liberal N proud]

9. When the news wasn't

New is no longer news, it is nothing more than the equivalent of standing in line at the grocery store and reading the headlines on the gossip papers.

[spanone]

10. i'm waiting for contessa to break a nail.

[HughMoran]

11. Yeah, but Betty White was funny though

:rofl:

:P

[sad sally]

12. Bombs targeting Iraqi police officers killed 84 today -

as required by treaty, no US soldiers were involved. So WHY are we still there?

[Webster Green]

13. I guess we're still liberating them.

Liberatin' is hard work.

[notesdev]

14. And you tune into that nonsense... why?

I manage to stay blissfully uninformed about the state of Barbara Walters' health by not turning on the TV... you ought to try it.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Now see .... ya made an assumption about me

I had it on today after having had it off for weeks.

Today reminded me why i watch it far less than before.

[MrScorpio]

16. Do you know what sucks?

The BBC doesn't have a push app for my iPod. Fox has one and apparently it's the most popular one. So I'm stuck with MSNBC.

I know that app developers can do better than this.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. But Steve Jobs will have to give his blessing. You can't put an app on an iPhone without asking...

"Mother may I". So if Steve Jobs decides he doesn't like the BBC, you don't get the BBC. Period.

Whereas, with an Android phone, you don't have such a problem.

[MrScorpio]

18. But there is an app for the iPAD, but not the iPOD

Personally, I blame the Beeb. I think that they're slacking off on app development.

I say that because some of their radio apps haven't moved past the beta stage.

[Obamanaut]

19. Kick. nt