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Why Call it ‘Breaking’ or ‘Developing’ When it’s Not?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 17 July 2009
Call me easily perturbed by 24-hour news media shock lingo, but CNN and CNN.com can’t seem to post a story without having an alarming red bar over or under it, indicating either developing or breaking story. Case in point, when Tiger Woods misses the cut at the British Open it is NOT a developing story. It [...]
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WATCH: President Obama’s First Speech to Congress

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 24 February 2009
MSNBC allows embedding of their Live Coverage of President Obama. This will undoubtedly be a somber speech -- dubbed the non-State of the Union (presidents generally don't give an SOTU address their first year in office). But only five weeks after taking office, the U.S. economy has continued to spiral into the ground and Obama -- whose cabinet is still not complete -- will address both houses of Congress. Facebook is reprising its collaboration with CNN's live coverage via http://facebook.com/cnn and on Twitter, the hashtag is #nSOTU.
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In an iReport World, Who Can We Trust?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 29 July 2008
In the mid-2008 media world, every network, blog, and news website wants to break the big impact story in times of developing news. For hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Chino Hills, ~30 miles from LA, rocked Southern California, all of the major networks and their websites continued carrying the news with a [...]
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