Twit Post: Non-Breaking News

The title of CNN right now reads:

"BREAKING NEWS: Clinton says she's 'deeply disappointed' by Iran's sentencing of U.S. journalist."

No, I am not going to comment on the content of the message beyond, is this really breaking news? Should not breaking news be like, "Clinton sends in Navy Seals to extract journalist." This is just a comment by someone who is suppose to comment on this stuff. Of course she is not going to be "Woohoo, justice was done." It is just ridiculous. I have seen even more ridiculous stuff in 'Breaking News' on CNN (and other websites, they are all just as bad).

Let us put the following rule in place : "It is only breaking news if it is unexpected, the story is new, or it is a shocking turn of events." We could always apply the other following metric "Would a newspaper in the 1920's have printed an 'extra extra' section, if not then it isn't breaking news." Either of them is fine with me.

News agencies need to be more aware of the stupid things they do to get eye-balls. If they continue I will stop reading CNN all together. I mean they rarely have good news anyway.