News organizations require time to verify content through their editorial standards, but Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok allow unverified information to spread rapidly in real time. Social media platforms, together with user-generated content, have rapidly accelerated the spread of breaking news throughout the digital revolution. CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht wrote upon assuming the position in 2022, “It has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience.” To address this, he began limiting CNN’s use of the term only to stories of utmost importance. Such breaks are now common at 24-hour news channels, which have an anchor available for live interruption at any time. Before 24-hour news networks existed, programming interruptions were restricted to extremely urgent news, such as for the assassination of U.S. Examples of early news bulletins in the Golden Age of Radio include fictionalized versions in the 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds and coverage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was also the first television news bulletin, reported on stations in New York and Pennsylvania.

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In 2015, the Financial Times suggested that with modern technological developments broadening news coverage, and with networks opting to show “livelier” non-expert comments from social media more, the need for talking heads may be shrinking. Pundits in the UK have said that they do it because they deem it important to get expert coverage of breaking news, and because it can put their field (and themselves) in the spotlight. In the United States, the competitive nature of commercial networks has allowed for pundits to develop their skills and dedicate themselves to respond to breaking news with analysis in a variety of fields, most often political. The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) maintains a list of guidelines for broadcasters reporting breaking news. For example, major U.S. broadcast networks analyzed the search warrant affidavit related to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in real time, while on the air, breaking into programming immediately after the document was released.

• Before 24-hour news networks existed, programming interruptions were restricted to extremely urgent news, such as for the assassination of U.S.
• Seriously, they mapped it out and tried it once before we hit record.
• National news that is broadcast over a radio network requires constant monitoring by station employees to allow the network coverage to air, although many stations will take a signal sent by the network and break into programming immediately.
• The Epstein files released by the Justice Department include hours of video footage Jeffrey Epstein recorded, received or downloaded.
• Retired education workers shout slogans in front of a line of riot police during a protest to demand the immediate approval of the Civil and Labor Amnesty Law in Caracas on Feb.10, 2026.

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