CNN needs to rethink their policies: I just got a "Breaking News" alert on my phone. The idea of something that is "breaking news" implies that it is something that has just happened, and that it is news worthy. What was this breaking news? It was to announce that the United States is in a recession and has been for A YEAR.

I recognize that they need to feel relevant and cause their viewers to quickly come to their web site so that they can drive up advertising revenue, but how was this news? Maybe from their lofty offices they haven't seen what the rest of us have known for some time, but this is hardly something worth sending out an alert. In fact, this is hardly page 2 material.