What does that even mean? News is by something you want to tell about something that has happened recently and breaking is making somthing into something it is not, usually by smashing it to bits. But since “news” is something that can not in any physical sense be smashed into bits, I get a little bit confused.

[Note from yourself a couple years in the future: I get a little confused by your writing. Maybe you should do something about that]

Does breaking news mean that you unmake the new thing into something that hasn’t happened yet, which is impossible? Or just that you tell the story and thus making into something that is not new anymore ant thus no longer news?

Actually, that does make a sort of sense. In fact, I think that I approve. It is violence hidden away in such an obscure form that noone will ever know for sure.

I wonder if it is a joke on the part of the journalists who originally invented the term…

Well, heads up writer people. I am on to you!