CNN Has Completely Given Up on the Meaning of ‘Breaking News’

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3. Yes...

..but that's only part of the problem. What constitutes news at all, breaking or not, seems to be sort of forgotten by today's "journalists".

Then there's the little problem of veracity. Many years ago, when I was in the military, I was a participant in something that made international news.

To make a long story short, when we got back to the base, I happened to read about it in a newspaper. My friend who also participated showed it to me. I had to read it a second time at his insistence before I realized they were talking about us. And I was there when it happened. It should have won a prize for fiction.

And somehow, I doubt that things have improved this many decades later.

How do you tell when a journalist is lying? They start publishing things.