The Media Drop

As I was flipping through my Gmail a few minutes ago, I caught an ad featuring “breaking news” from USA Today about a shooting that claimed four victims. (screenshot below)

Thinking that I’d heard the story before, but that maybe this was a very cool addition to Gmail’s RSS clips with new news, I clicked through. As it turns out, it was a story from four days ago that was, for some reason, still up there. While I can understand keeping things like that queued up, I found it kind of off-putting that it’d still be there when it wasn’t actually breaking news. Just my two cents.