On Thursday morning, CNN’s new chief executive Chris Licht wrote a company-wide memo instructing employees to use “breaking news” with a bit more caution. Hey, if it’s all breaking, none of it’s really breaking.
“Something I have heard from people both inside and outside the organization is complaints we overuse the ‘Breaking News’ banner,” Licht wrote in the memo, as first reported by The New York Times. “I agree. It has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience.”
