Several iPhone apps have the ability to “Push” a breaking news story to get your immediate attention.<\/p>\n
It’s interesting to see which news sources decide which news events are important enough to attract your immediate attention and which aren’t.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Little\u00a0 boy:\u00a0 Wolf!\u00a0 Wolf! – no there is really a wolf this time!<\/p>\n
I already deleted Stitcher because\u00a0 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”.\u00a0\u00a0 Stitcher isn’t even really a news service.<\/p>\n
Around Noon, the most important “News” story on Fox Radio News was the Queen of England having a big party in London.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0\u00a0 This is why the FCC has rules against non-Americans running American radio stations.\u00a0\u00a0 You managed to get a piece of paper that says “US Citizen”, but it’s pretty clear you aren’t an American at heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading