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jakub_g
on June 2, 2022
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CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “bre...
Not a native but for a good while I thought that "breaking news" was TV specific term meaning "we need to break the regular things that were about to be shown because we've got this last minute urgent thing to tell" (think: 9/11, president died etc)
Wikipedia seems to agree:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_news
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Wikipedia seems to agree:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_news