Remember back in the days before 24 hour rolling news channels when if there was a newsflash on the telly you would shat your intestine across the floor in dreaded anticipation of who had just been killed or horrifically injured. Those days are almost gone (the Bhutto bullet was a proper newsflash that I caught old school style) but even going back just a couple of years when "Breaking News" flashed up on the bottom of the screen on Sky News you still felt the buzz that you were about to find out something dramatic that you would shout round the house whilst it was still scrolling along the screen.
Watching news recently it seems that any kind of news is now "Breaking News". There's nothing special about it or particularly important, it's just a bit of news that Sky hasn't told you about in the previous 15 minute segment so it is technically news that is breaking.
BREAKING NEWS: GORDON BROWN WASHES HAIR
Actually, that deserves a newsflash.
Sunday, 20 January 2008
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