“So ‘breaking news’ is now the starting point for regular, ordinary news. Then, if there’s something more than ordinary, it has to be bigger than ‘breaking news,’ so it’s a ‘bombshell.’ I’m quite sure some other term will emerge when we realize ‘bombshell’ has been overused so much it’s lost its meaning,” he says, becoming more animated. “We’ll call it ‘supercalifragilistic news’!”
