c/showerthoughts · by over_clox@lemmy.world · 164d

When they play reruns of the News, it shouldn't be called News anymore, now it should be called Olds, or Old News for you purists out there..

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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 164d (2 replies)

I have to ask:

"Reruns of the News"... ???

over_clox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 164d (1 reply)

Yeah, that's a thing here, they'll rerun the 10pm news at 1am. 🤷

Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 164d

Ok, when thinking way back, they might have done something similar here 30 years ago or so.
Don't think it is a thing today anymore.
But I have not been watching linear TV since the mid-00s anymore though, so may be mistaken...

Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 164d

Pastnews might be a more marketable name.

notabot@piefed.social · 4 pts · 164d

The first time they rerun a storys it should be referenced as a "new olds" or "new old news", the secon time as "old new olds", and so on.

Fondots@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 164d (1 reply)

My wife likes to listen to podcasts.

And often I find that the podcasts she listens to are about things that I'd followed closely in the news weeks, months, sometimes years before (we just have some different interests, she's actually probably the bigger news junkie than I am)

But so I've taken to calling her podcasts "late news" because she's getting that news later than I did.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d

It's really just recent history.

Zier@fedia.io · 4 pts · 164d (1 reply)

Reruns must always contain a large block of text before the rerun begins, And it must say, "Previously, on The News..."

over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d

Ours just says "Previously Recorded", but yeah.

athatet@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 164d

Oh boy. The news is on.

Aw shucks. It’s a rerun.

Well, at lease this was a good episode.

tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 164d