‘Breaking news’ threshold keeps falling
Cory Bergman September 21st, 2006
Seen on MSNBC yesterday (video): anchor Chris Jansing interrupts a talk-back with NBC News’ Jay Barbree on the space shuttle to announce “breaking news” of an ostrich on the loose on a school playground in North Carolina. “Is that breaking news?” Barbree asks. “I have a bicycle crash down here, you want to cover that, Chris?” Jansing laughs, “I don’t know.”
7 Comments Add your own
1. Alyssa | September 21st, 2006 at 7:37 am
Funny, yes. Breaking news, no. (Unless your kid was on that NC playground. I hear ostriches are kind of mean animals.)
2. invitedmedia | September 21st, 2006 at 8:03 am
that particular ostrich was a drug dealer too!
3. Steve | September 21st, 2006 at 8:41 am
This is why more and more people don’t take TV news seriously.
4. Brad | September 21st, 2006 at 8:45 am
Yeah a little too much there. Although last night I saw a new one I never saw before walking past a TV showing Nancy “Tell me th Truth” Grace. It said BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS. What the hell does that mean?
5. Rex | September 21st, 2006 at 10:48 am
The Daily Show is going to have fun with this, I’m sure.
6. Steve Safran | September 21st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
This will become meta very fast. Soon they will put up a BREAKING NEWS banner to announce that there is no breaking news. Because BREAKING NEWS is no longer news, it will be breaking news when there isn’t breaking news.
I believe I’m the first to break this story.
7. James T. | August 7th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Who cares?!? Chris Jansing is HOT!!!! As long as she’s on the screen, it’s all “Breaking News.”
–JT
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