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Brilliant. I endeavor to not watch the “news”, but every now and then I cruise through the various news show-grams. When did it happen that now everything is “Breaking News”?
Is “Broken” news. As in ‘LIES”.
I haven’t watched the news in many years. While I was still watching the lead story on the local 6 o’clock news one night was that a girl saw a snake in a vacant lot. They actually had an on-location reporter with shots of the vacant and snakeless lot being searched by firemen with serious looking cops standing by. That was the end for me.
If it’s news, it ain’t.