http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/06/11/what-is-breaking-news/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/06/11/what-is-breaking-news/#comment-1984 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:49:33 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.wordpress.com/?p=166#comment-1984 [...] ability to set the agenda is diminishing, and nowhere does this seem more clear to me than in the lamentable over-extension of the definition of ‘breaking news’. Breaking news as we know it dates to the radio era, and was used sparingly – only when the [...]

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