Does news belong here?

We're playing Baker's Bar on the 20th of October. Just letting Mike, Kev, and Liam know really.

Now that I have those unpleasantries out of the way I'd like to call the world's attention to Sky News, apparently first for breaking news. Yes, they invented breaking news. In fact, just like anybody who invented anything, they monopolised it, whored it to death and now breaking news is anything that's happening anywhere at any time no matter how insignificant it is.

While watching a press conference on Sky News you are likely to be spoon-fed all significant quotes from said press conference, usually through their latest innovation which I like to call double breaking news. One helping of information overload not good enough for you? Then roll out the horrible yellow and black scrolling marquee for further confusion!

Of course this is symptomatic of Sky News who are heading right down the US TV news route where you get more weather reports than financial reports, more celebrity mud-slinging than political debate and more scaremongering than a Manhatten advertising agency. Fox News looks like a movie trailer, how long until Sky News looks the same?

It already looks ridiculous.