Does anyone care about breaking news?

Being a breaking news addict, the news that Boris Yeltsin had just died breathed fire and flame into the wanna-be journalist inside of me.

Unfortunately, when I conveyed this exciting piece of breaking news to my fellow workers in the office, they all just looked up, then looked down and carried on with their work.

How would you have reacted? I was presuming people would show at least some mild interest…

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#1 written by akatsuki
about 3 years ago

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first thought: no shit; i thought he was already dead. second thought: end of an era. third thought: how dare he die and leave behind the mess in chechnya.

nobody in my workplace cared either.
#2 written by Mosh
about 3 years ago

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Boris who? Did he play chess or something?

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