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		xur17 on Feb 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inl... I distinctly recall signing up for "breaking news alerts" a few days after 9/11. I figured if something major happened, it would be nice to receive a notification about it. I quickly learned that my definition of breaking news was dramatically different from that of the news..

midasuni on Feb 21, 2021 [–]

As far as I’m concerned breaking news should be stuff that interrupts non news channel output. Lost that argument decades ago though.

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