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In The Newsroom the crew of an evening news show would call their network’s control room and “break in” to the broadcast out of turn, when something really impo
by closeparen 5y ago
In The Newsroom the crew of an evening news show would call their network’s control room and “break in” to the broadcast out of turn, when something really important was happening. If the term has any coherent meaning I expect it’s that. Worth interrupting other programming for. On a 24x7 news network, probably meaningless.
- pseudalopex 5y agoRelated meanings of break are older than the telegraph.[1] Maybe the printing press. [1] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/break+it+to+you https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/break+it+to+you