Entries tagged “news”

Eric Wedum draws headlines:

Each weekday I find a headline on a major news site, and illustrate it without reading a word of the story.

Outstanding.

The Tampa Tribune lists 50 things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year. Highlights include:

9. Babies pick up their parents’ accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.

19. The calmest place on Earth is on top of an icy plateau in Antarctica known as Ridge A, several hundred miles from the South Pole. It is so still that stars do not twinkle in the sky because there is no turbulence in the atmosphere to distort the light.

27. Women who revealed about 40 percent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up. Any more than 40 percent and the signal changes from allure to one indicating general availability and future infidelity.

Michael Jackson’s death overwhelmed various Internet sites. Linnie Rawlinson and Nick Hunt:

How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one—if that one is Michael Jackson.

CNN’s Breaking News Annoys Me

I subscribe to CNN’s Breaking News e-mail alerts.  I figured that since I have a BlackBerry, I can get important news e-mailed to me so I can be aware of it without having to check the web site.  For a little while it was good in that the news that was considered “breaking” was actually news that might be considered important.

That has changed.  I think that whoever is pulling the trigger on what is breaking news has a very low threshold, or, they are paid by the number of breaking news items they send out.  Below are just three “Breaking News” items that CNN saw fit to send me recently:

  • Don Knotts died.
  • Ben Rothlisburger to be issued summons for failing to wear a helmet and have a proper motorcycle license.
  • Dan Rather reaches agreement with CBS News to leave the network after 44 years.

You’re joking, right?

Update: I threw up a page that keeps track of the ridiculous ones.  They’ve gotten a lot better.