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“Breaking News” Reaches A New Low

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Media Bistro does an exceptional job in pictorially showing us everything that is wrong with mainstream news media nowadays. The following is MSNBC’s 5 hour breaking-news coverage from 10:20 am to 3:33 pm:

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katie and tom 2

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Posted in Programming on November 20th, 2006

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3 Responses to ““Breaking News” Reaches A New Low”

  1. KeithR Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 7:44 am

    New lows, indeed. You’s think it was the Pop watch from E!

  2. Aaron Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 6:39 pm

    It’s ridiculous how much the big name “news” stations are so addicted to celeb news. This crap belongs on E! not on MSNBC.

    Aaron.

  3. Farley Says:
    November 25th, 2006 at 11:49 am

    So very, very sad.

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