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Dear media outlets (especially CNN),<\/p>\n

For future reference, I’d like to reach a consensus about how you define the term “breaking news.” <\/p>\n

I have signed up for your email service where you will send me alerts on the aforementioned “breaking news.” I have appreciated this service in the past when you have kept me informed of key news stories about important issues as they were developing.<\/p>\n

I have noticed a disturbing trend, unfortunately. You have a tendency to send me alerts about what I would consider celebrity gossip. <\/p>\n

For some people, I’m sure this is, in fact, breaking news. I’d bet that Cooperstown email accounts contained a flurry of information today about how to answer questions about who has hit the most home runs in a season. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the recording industry is in a tizzy with Simon Cowell’s announcement of his planned departure from American Idol<\/em>. But for me and 99% of other people receiving your breaking news alerts? I’d bet our day remains unchanged having now heard the bulletins.<\/p>\n

So, please, let’s agree on terms. If there’s some other list you’d like me to sign up for, some actually-important-no-really news list, please let me know and I’d be happy to unsubscribe from what I thought was supposed to be that service and hop on board with what I look for in news alerts.<\/p>\n

And, otherwise, let’s work on figuring out what’s really important to America and send out information about that, shall we?<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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