Tuesday, February 5, 2008

CNN's broken news alerts

For those that signed up for CNN's e-mail alerts to get instant updates on Super Tuesday's election results, it's clear that the cable news channel's definition of "instant" is a bit different than the rest of us.
Here's the entirety of CNN's announcements I received tonight:
CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
8:29 PM (2 hours ago)
-- CNN projects Huckabee winner of Georgia GOP primary.

CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
6:47 PM (3 hours ago)
-- CNN projects that Clinton will win Massachusetts Democratic primary.

CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
5:01 PM (5 hours ago)
-- CNN projects: Romney wins Mass.; McCain wins Conn. and Illinois; Obama wins Illinois; Clinton wins Okla.

CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
5:11 PM (5 hours ago)
-- CNN projects McCain as the winner of the GOP primary in New Jersey.

CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
4:01 PM (6 hours ago)
-- Sen. Barack Obama has won the Democratic primary in Georgia, CNN projects; Republicans in tight three-way race.

That's it. Eight states. According to CNN's Text Breaking News, this race ain't even close to over. Odd that their website seems to think differently.

UPDATE: They were much quicker this morning with this one:

CNN Breaking News to TEXTBREAKINGNE.
7:30 AM (1 hour ago)
-- The NYC medical examiner's office has ruled that Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

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