blue_bean wrote:
I subscribed to the youtube channel of a girl who is a linedance choreographer (well known thanks to her dad who is the same). She only has about 70 subscribers though.
so maybe she is not that well known or maybe she has cloaked her identity on youtube in order to foil her fans.
anyway, the same person got killed 4 times today apparently. i saw the same story 4 times on TV, and each time there was a banner at the bottom of the screen that said "breaking news".
what do they mean by "breaking" news? i imagine that they mean news that i have not yet heard. so how do they know if i have heard that article of news or not in order to assign the category of that article of news as "breaking"?
if i take it literally, then i am supposed to believe that every time i heard the story, i heard a fresh and unrelated story that is never the less identical to the earlier stories i heard? i am glad that i can understand the laws of probability enough to be able to determine that the banner on the bottom of the screen that said "breaking news" was in fact obsolete when i saw it for the second, and subsequent times.
only one person was killed, but the newscasters got a lot of mileage out of it.
at least it it is better than what i see from america where so many people are being killed every day that they do not have enough time or consideration to cover them all.