breaking news?

Why does the NZ Herald have a banner across the top of its site screaming: “Breaking news: NZRU over emphasised World Cup- report”?

  1. This is not news. Anybody who so much as glanced at any New Zealand newspaper in the long, long run-up to the World Cup knew that it was being blown way out of proportion.
  2. Isn’t “breaking news” supposed to refer to things that could actually be considered important? Or at least “big”?

Pathetic.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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