Breaking the News - Week 1, Year 2010
Posted on January 8th, 2010
It’s a fresh new year with fresh new headlines to break for you. I’ll try to keep the shrapnel contained.
Breaking the News - Week 1, Year 2010 is also available on Vimeo.
My little news breaks are the dead opossums on the Information Superhighway.
Why?
Because I’m an idiot.
For the actual stories
Ohio cops are on the Teen Beat
“Google it” is the new “call me”
Transcript
Happy Friday! Here are some headlines from this first week of 2010…sort of.
On Thursday, President Obama took responsibility for correcting system failures that nearly led to the explosion of an airliner headed for the U.S. on Christmas day. In a press conference, the President outlined several bureaucratic changes the administration will make, assuring Americans that nothing improves security like red tape and new business cards.
In a related story, national security experts and civil liberties activists continue to debate the efficacy, necessity and invasiveness of full body scans in airports. Officials from the union that represents TSA workers say their membership will support the procedure as long as you-must-be-this-hot-to-go-through-security regulations are put in place.
On Tuesday, a pair of young girls aged 12 and 14 robbed a bank in Ohio and are still on the loose. Authorities in the state are urging parents to remind their daughters that “on the loose” should only mean that they spend too much time under the bleachers with boys and not that they are running from the law.
The tech industry was buzzing this week over the debut of the Nexus One mobile device released by Google. Some experts were not convinced of its marketability, though, wondering who will want a phone that they always have to search for.
In sports news, Wizards’ guard Gilbert Arenas was suspended by the NBA on Wednesday for showing off his guns in his team’s locker room. Said Arenas in a statement, “Hey, when you spend this much money on steroids, you should be able to flaunt the results every once in a while” end quote.
Rumors have surfaced about the possible cancellation of the Jay Leno Show, prompting NBC to release a statement detailing its plans for the future of the program. The network assured fans (or fan) that they will keep the show where it is if Leno promises to investigate more crime scenes or publicly search for a husband.
And finally, in other entertainment news, reports have been confirmed that Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson are indeed engaged. In a related story, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
That’s it. I’m Kathy. If the news is broken, I dropped it.
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