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CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as "breaking news"
CNN's new boss Chris Licht says that beginning today, CNN has added a "Breaking News guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network and cable news writ-large.
Why it matters: Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav have made it a priority to dial back on partisan programming at CNN in favor of traditional journalism.
We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers, he said in the note obtained by Axios.
"Youve already seen far less of the 'Breaking News' banner across our programming."
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines
Liberal In Texas
(13,600 posts)When you get "real" breaking news you don't pay attention with the thing being so overused.
TheBlackAdder
(28,237 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,315 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,010 posts)Initech
(100,117 posts)I'm tired of like every story being labeled "breaking news"! All news is breaking news! We don't have to constantly be reminded of it!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)TheProle
(2,210 posts)momta
(4,079 posts)I admit that when I first looked at the link I expected to see The Onion
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)IcyPeas
(21,927 posts)maybe at the White House Correspondents Dinner? Trevor Noah maybe? I seem to remember someone joking about CNN's Breaking News banner. 🤔
Raven123
(4,898 posts)underpants
(182,967 posts)My wife would say Everything isnt BREAKING NEWS Wolf.
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)he made fun of everything being "breaking news" on CNN.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)The phrase has become meaningless. Now if MSNBC would do the same.
momta
(4,079 posts)And they're my main news source so it really sucks.
malaise
(269,237 posts)You rule
Tetrachloride
(7,884 posts)Traildogbob
(8,858 posts)Mass shootings, that will be tough to do.
unblock
(52,415 posts)And biased right wing propaganda when republicans are in charge.
Lucy promising to hold the ball for Charlie for real this time
ancianita
(36,184 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,166 posts)Who you work with matters.
ancianita
(36,184 posts)Novara
(5,861 posts)I am so sick of seeing BREAKING NEWS on the crawl when it happened days ago. It's fucking ridiculous.
I will see true breaking news on msnbc and turn it on hours later and its still breaking news even if there is no update to original story.
Raine
(30,541 posts)lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)I hope this doesn't mean they will let them slide by and
not hold them accountable just because it looks "nice".
spudspud
(511 posts)Deserves all the credit for mocking CNN at the correspondent's dinner regarding this very thing and calling out Chris Licht by name, saying "...did they just put it on during the OJ chase and then forget how to get rid of it? The news is not always breaking!"
bucolic_frolic
(43,415 posts)Which is what got us into this mess in the first place. Journalism should be so much more, as it once was before corporate sanitizing, offend-no-one in the name of profits.
towerbum
(263 posts)But, that's to much to ask of the media , don't furnish enough click bait & their damn paywall's !
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)has the anchors focus on mass shooting events as a ratings grabber but abandon the "news" when time has passed since the ratings drop. Licht is a dick. I bet he is behind all the Biden bashing too.
Orrex
(63,247 posts)Good for them, but holy shit what took so long?
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)cstanleytech
(26,341 posts)like a country from the late 1930s that is north of Switzerland.
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)All news uses is sensationalism
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Not holding my breath
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)That's what I say when I heard that phrase "breaking news".
If CNN wanted to be original it could bring back the News Flash...
CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)Oh, I've always inserted a "the" when seeing that!
Boycott yellow journalism and infotainment. Insist on actual News.
Marcuse
(7,542 posts)Piratedog
(256 posts)Local mayor gets ingrown toenails. Breaking news
Joinfortmill
(14,487 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,218 posts)I also change to something else after the local CBS evening news comes on with Nora going high stress.
I also avoid newsnation with Abrams and their other so called unbiased news. I don't get why the local station even push viewers to watch them when it would be during their own paid programming.
ificandream
(9,410 posts)But they'll never stop. Their so-called "news" is just frilly packaged b.s.
DFW
(54,462 posts)Now THAT one would be so lacking in credibility that even diehard Foxsuckers would catch it as a joke immediately.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)It is so over used that it is worthless.
ABC always leads their Nightly News with "We have breaking news as we come on the air!" Really, I most likely already have known for several hours if not days. Sigh...
RipVanWinkle
(236 posts)Several years ago, I got so tired of hearing Breaking News, it all just seemed like breaking wind to me.
bhikkhu
(10,725 posts)Hearing an anchor go off on his feelings or whatever, that's just not what I expect from the news. Of course it's probably a reaction against the other side which does that incessantly (in the other direction), but still - if it's not journalism I don't see the point. Give me the facts and I'll form my own opinion. That seems to be so out of fashion now that just watching the news on TV makes me feel old, so I don't do it.
Maybe this is a step in the right direction.