February 29, 2008

"Breaking News" - A Year Later

Apparently CNN still has the same consultant telling it to lie to it's viewers it did a year ago when I wrote about false "breaking news".

I was at lunch today and the moron producers at CNN ran a story about something that happened in Las Vegas yesterday. Beneath the video of police cars at night at a Las Vegas resort, CNN ran the caption..."Breaking News". To top it off they put up another caption saying "Thursday". So they pretty much admitted the story was old. I guess they were having a slow news day. How can a story that broke yesterday be "Breaking News".

It can't. But in order to attract viewers the consultants tell CNN to put crap like this on the screen even when the story is almost a day old.

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