General Evans Above Archive for Jul 21, 2003

Breaking news?

Jul 21, 2003 – permalink

This just in…

Watching the start of Inside Edition…Deborah Norville says, “We have some breaking news…let’s go to the newsroom.” They head off to a story on the rape case against NBA star Kobe Bryant.

Breaking news happens all the time on news networks like CNN. But Inside Edition is a pre-taped, syndicated show that appears several times a day on different channels. So it’s a cheap gimmick to say the news is “breaking” and head to the newsroom like their regular show has been interrupted.