Breaking News: News Outlets Overusing Alerts

Thursday, 24 April 2014 | by Pat's Picks

Actor Josh Gad writes a guest column in USA Today decrying the overuse of breaking news alerts by news outlets. He says CNN felt the need yesterday to send an alert to his phone, telling him that Lupita Nyong’o had been named People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Person of 2014. He says editors need to be much more discriminating when deciding what news is worthy of sending out an alert.

SOURCE: USA Today