How do you usually hear "breaking news"?

  I have become extremely and possibly irrevocably jaded by what passes for “journalism” these past few years, precisely because of things like the ratings-grab procedure of blasting the fake BREAKING NEWS banner every fifteen seconds on every type of media outlet or broadcast known to humankind. Rarely is it truly breaking news in the sense that they’ve interrupted regular programming to inform the masses of an issue of dire importance. It’s usually some abstract rumor with no viable facts behind it and even less background, but it has the dopamine-inducing stimuli to drag people away from their cat videos and cooking shows in competition with other networks. , When it is breaking news, there is so little concrete and/or reliable information being passed on that it makes it not worth the trouble to even tune in because they can’t answer the who, what, when, where, why or how, but as long as they snatch eyeballs and earballs before anyone else does, they’ve won.
  To answer your question, I filter a couple of AM radio programs that I trust enough to give a higher degree of accuracy in reporting than other so-called news sources.  If it were not for that option, I might just have to go outside, stick my finger in my mouth to get it wet, then hold it up in the air to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

(No, I‘m not bitter about this at all.)

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