Several iPhone apps have the ability to “Push” a breaking news story to get your immediate attention.
It’s interesting to see which news sources decide which news events are important enough to attract your immediate attention and which aren’t.
I just got flashed the important news by USA Today (aka Gannet) that some 20 year old female gymnast is going to retire and not go the Olympics.
Little boy: Wolf! Wolf! – no there is really a wolf this time!
I already deleted Stitcher because 1) the main reason I used it was for John Derbyshire and 2) the obvious political bias on which “breaking news” stories they choose to “push”. Stitcher isn’t even really a news service.
Around Noon, the most important “News” story on Fox Radio News was the Queen of England having a big party in London.
Excuse me Rupert Murdoch, but we fought a war in the 18th century to tell the monarchy of England that we oppose any notion of hereditary rule – the Constitution specifically went out of its way to make sure the US would never hand out titles of nobility and that no person holding a government office could accept a title of nobility from a foreign country. This is why the FCC has rules against non-Americans running American radio stations. You managed to get a piece of paper that says “US Citizen”, but it’s pretty clear you aren’t an American at heart.
More breaking news!
Some horse is not going to run in the Belmont. Run for your lives!