not just typically vacuous rot, but mostly domestic - though, admittedly, we’ve likely cornered the market…additionally, i’ve not run the watch, but cnn seems to run an exasperating number of commercials
i find The Onion’s brand of hard hitting journalism strikes an appropriately reverential tone for most major network headlines
p.s.: we shall miss you becks! (at least it’s a bit of (semi-)foreign coverage) peace, katie
A couple weeks after the split was announced, one of the gossip rags had a headline that said “SPECIAL GOSSELIN-FREE ISSUE!”. I was LOLing and the teenage cashier looked at my like I’d gone nuts.
I didn’t see it, but I heard from quite a few people that NBC did a “Breaking News” to announce Whitney Houston’s death. 
Interrupted a show and everything, too. People who saw it said they were thinking things like that Joseph Biden had died or that Iran had exploded a nuclear weapon, the possibility of which was a big story at that time. And there was a Facebook meme that went viral amongst right-wingers a few months ago stating that Obama required flags to be flown at half-staff in her honor, which was blatantly untrue. Chris Christie only recommended it for people in New Jersey. :smack:
I just got the following alert:
The jurors in the George Zimmerman trial are taking a one-hour lunch break. They began deliberations shortly after 9 a.m. ET Saturday, and they deliberated for more than 3.5 hours Friday.
I guess a TWO-hour lunch break would have merited a “Special Report”. I look forward to a Breaking News alert detailing what each juror ordered for lunch.
This is truly the gift that keeps on giving. This morning’s “alert”:
Netflix has two shows nominated for Emmy Awards: “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development.” It’s the first time a series distributed online has been nominated for TV’s top honors.
The Emmys will be broadcast Sunday, September 22, on CBS.
They do that crap on their main page all the time; the case I can think of seemed to be rampant editorializing via the method of what they put as the main story of the day.
They had some sob story about child hunger in Africa as the marquee story on CNN.com, and yet there was much more pertinent and interesting stuff going on in the US and elsewhere than that.
I like CNN.com as a world-at-a-glance news website, but sometimes their story selection is weird. Also, old stories - very stale, like, from months ago - sometimes linger in the “In other news” sidebars.
Maybe someone at CNN is a Death Pool player, because I just got this Breaking News bulletin:
Actress Lisa Robin Kelly, one of the stars of TV’s “That '70s Show,” has died, according to her agent, Craig Wyckoff.
Kelly was 43, according to her biography on the Internet Movie Database.
When they say “one of the stars” they must mean “cast member nobody remembers”. You can’t tell me she’s a bigger name than Eydie Gorme or Karen Black, both of who died recently without meriting a “Breaking News” bulletin.
I almost yelled at my TV today when at 7pm CNN announced they had breaking news…about the stock market being down 200 points two and a half hours ago.
Then they had video that was “just in”, that they had been showing for over half an hour.
Sigh. I used to respect CNN. Now EVERYTHING is breaking.
I brought this thread back once again…because CNN alerts continue to plumb the depths of stupidity.
Today’s exciting BREAKING NEWS!!!
“Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that he is gay in a column in Bloomberg Business Week.”
Really, CNN? You still consider this “breaking news” in 2014?
Ay caramba!
It’s even worse when you consider who they’re talking about. Tim Cook, the guy who’s trying his hardest to be the ghost of of Steve Jobs, and failing badly 