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Pretty sure 'breaking' meant 'late-breaking' and the colour etc were meant to inflect urgency (also a bit of a sales tactic, but different intent) rather than p
by 52-6F-62 4y ago
Pretty sure 'breaking' meant 'late-breaking' and the colour etc were meant to inflect urgency (also a bit of a sales tactic, but different intent) rather than particularly large news. It's just old newsy lingo.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/late-breaking https://www.lexico.com/definition/late-breaking
- jakub_g 4y agoNot a native but for a good while I thought that "breaking news" was TV specific term meaning "we need to break the regular things that were about to be shown because we've got this last minute urgent thing to tell" (think: 9/11, president died etc) Wikipedia seems to agree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_news https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_news