We Interrupt This Rant To Bring You Breaking News!

The BBQ Pit
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It has been determined that…THIS BREAKING NEWS UPDATE IS BEING INTERRUPTED TO BRING YOU MORE BREAKING NEWS…It is now confirmed tha…WE ARE BREAKING AWAY TO BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS…It has been proven that kicking pupp…HOLD ON, WE HAVE HAVE BREAKING NEWS TO BRING YOU…

For fucks sake, finish a sentence, you motherless fucks! I know that you are eager to bring us the first images of a SCUD slamming into Kuwait City or one of your journalists gagging to death on SBDF or VX, but unless you have what is known as ‘confirmed news’, don’t keep breaking from location to location in a effort to bring us the gory details. The news is going from speculation to more speculation, and it is getting almost humorous. Almost, if it wasn’t a war.

Goddamnit twice-fold! Local PBS has broken from BBC coverage to…wait for it…Barney the Islamist Extremist Dinosaur!

Shit.

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It needed to be said.

Thank you.

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Slight hijack, I think:

On Fox “News”, at the bottom of the screen, just to the side of the current headline, they have the words “Terror Alert: High.” But is it really necessary to include it in their news crawler at the bottom of the screen? Three times in a row, at times, to boot?

<<(4) Terror Alert: HIGH>> <<(4) Terror Alert: HIGH>> <<(4) Terror Alert: HIGH>>

Though, I see they have reduced most of the screen clutter, for now, anyway.

I don’t have cable (thankfully, I think), so this is abnormal for me.

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I am still waiting for the : **WE interrupt your cell phone call/ SDMB rantings/voicemail message/shower/sex/ poop for this late breaking NEWS **
It will happen.

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For god’s sake, if you’re going to break away, at least have the decency to give us some NEWS. You know, information? A picture of a blank sky and “there were some explosions before” is not news.

I’d also like to give a big shout out to WPIX (New York) for pre-empting the last 2min of Angel to give us information that had been on the news channels for 20 minutes already. I guess that it’s unreasonable for me to think they’d wait a whole 2min and start their news broadcast at the normal time.

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There are so many little banners and scrolls and graphics on the screen it is like the SNL skit. Somehow having the DJIA scrolling along as smart bombs slam into targets is discordant, IMO.

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I actually chuckled last night while witnessing the following (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) on MSNBC:

"I’m sorry to interrupt you, Bob, but we are seeing anti-aircraft fire and explosions over Baghdad.

… Okay, I’ve just been informed that what we are seeing is actually tape of what happened a half an hour ago. I’m sorry Bob … you were saying?"

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I generally like Fox News, but this is getting silly.

BREAKING WAR NEWS REPORT*

The ‘Shock and Awe’ campaign has not begun yet.

BACK TO HOPING OUR MAN IN KUWAIT EATS GAS

Come on, Fox. Don’t make me watch MSNBC…

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You haven’t become nearly cynical enough yet, then. To me, it seems refreshingly forthright.