CNN's Broken News

CNN's coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah crisis has been the most comprehensive of all the networks. You can see why when they show you the number of reporters they have stationed in the Israel-Lebanon area. They put up pictures of all of them and it looks like the geneological table of a strange family.

However, the also have the most irritating graphics of any network. They have "Breaking News" of events that happened yesterday. They show "News Alerts" in the late evening of things that everyone has seen throughout the day and early evening. They have "Developing Story" that they use each time a bomb lands or a casualty is reported. What do they expect that Story will develop into?

They won't let up on the graphics while feeding the public the same stories all day and night long. Then they wonder why cable outlets have such little credibility and audience share. People hear the same "Breaking News" three times within an hour and they are bound to start looking for the remote.

It's one thing to have fake advertising. It's a more serious breach of the public trust to have false "Breaking News, News Alerts, and Developing Stories". Leave the fake news to the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart. They're much better at it.