BREAKING NEWS!!
Sorry for the all caps but - huzza, huzza - I have returned from the UK. Plus, it seems that every network has taken to captioning every story as breaking news. CNBC is particularly bad about this. They will be interviewing a guest and label a rehash of his/her comments running below his/her picture as breaking news. Kind of makes you wonder what they would label true breaking news. It's like always using profanity, you're left with no words when profanity is really needed. I'm reminded of the Iraqi interpreter for CNN (and I am so ashamed that I cannot recall or find his name, as though he was just an Iraqi interpreter so why remember his name) who was killed. The people who worked with him fondly recalled that he was always running into the hotel where they all stayed yelling, "Breaking news, breaking news." After awhile to josh him they took to calling everything breaking news. They would run out of toilet paper and say, "Breaking news, breaking news, we're out of toilet paper." So,
Breaking news! Breaking news! I have returned. Alert the media.
Breaking news! Breaking news! I have returned. Alert the media.





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