A low bar for Breaking News
Jun. 21st, 2020 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcLast month I was complaining here about the BBC News website's poor headlines regarding COVID-19 coverage. Now I find myself irritated by their notion of what qualifies as a
Separately, I happened to notice that one of the ways in which I first learn that I should check news headlines is that my broker is sending me notifications that trade orders have triggered.
breaking newspopup. This is somewhat true of their television channel too but the example freshest in my mind is their website twice today bringing up the breaking news that another senior politician said that an incident in which people were stabbed and killed is, in some way, a very bad thing. I would prefer them to reserve the pushing of alerts for items that might genuinely come as a surprise, like the initial incident, not everybody's predictable reaction to it.
Separately, I happened to notice that one of the ways in which I first learn that I should check news headlines is that my broker is sending me notifications that trade orders have triggered.
