# Suggestion for concideration

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**Created:** [August 18, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341 "2008-08-18T00:01:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341/1 "2008-08-18T00:01:57Z")

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Recently a Propane storage area in Toronto blew up and fox just reported that a Dam let go in the Grand Canyon.

Is there a correct place for breaking news other than Cafe society for the entertainment world, or can one be created.

Declan

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341/2 "2008-08-18T00:06:10Z")

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Breaking news usually goes in MPSIMS - unless it’s political, in which case it goes in Great Debates, or if the original poster is sufficiently ticked off about it that he/she puts it in the Pit. I think a post about what you’re describing would fit fine in MPSIMS. We’ve had threads about earthquakes and fires in there recently, for example.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341/3 "2008-08-18T00:46:11Z")

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Wanted to add: that’s not a flat-out “no” or anything. It’s just that threads like that tend to get moved to the right forum, so a Breaking News forum would probably end up creating some duplicates.

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341/4 "2008-08-18T01:16:53Z")

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Wasn’t there a Manhattan sticky about posting news events in GQ?

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**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-concideration/460341/5 "2008-08-18T01:33:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl]  
Wasn’t there a Manhattan sticky about posting news events in GQ?  
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That was “heh-politics in General Questions”