Weird that major news never breaks on weekends

The October 7th Hamas attack happened on a Saturday.

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R1 Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran nearly always attack Israel on shabbat.

Trump's first assassination attempt was on a Saturday.

Reporters are lazy, and even though news never stops, most don't like having to do work on weekends.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was on a Sunday morning.

Major news on a weekend means it's something unexpected and probably bad.

Government offices are closed. That means basically everything from Congress to landmark Supreme Court decisions to announcements of this or that ain't happening.

If you are a paper or news org and have a major story you've been working on, you want to publish it when people will be paying attention. Again, not the weekend.

That covers most of the major news things.

That leaves celebrity deaths and war pretty much. Those can happen at any time.

Diana died at the weekend. I went to a club on the Sunday night, and the music started with this.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria was brutally murdered on a Saturday 😭

Some of the mass shootings have happened on weekends.

In 2019, the El Paso mass shooting and Dayton mass shooting happened over a weekend. I recall that mall shooting in Texas last year was on a Saturday.

Controversial Presidential pardons can happen on weekends, IIRC.

[quote] Diana died at the weekend.

I was 12 when that happened. My parents went out of town for the weekend. I stayed at my aunt's house. My grandmother was living with her. My aunt took me and my cousin to the movies that weekend. We came back, my grandmother was glued to the news coverage. I think she stayed up until 1 or 2 am watching coverage.

Bin Laden death announced on a Sunday night

R15, IMO, that was controversial. Although people were happy he died, that was arguably an extra-judicial execution.

Manuel Noriega was captured and tried. Why not Bin Laden. IIRC, Noriega enjoyed Doritos while in jail.

Anyway, my point is, that happened on a Sunday for a reason.

Many stories purposely released on Friday afternoon, knowing fewer watch the news over the week-end. If it's something that will rile up the public, they have until Monday to cool off before filing protests.

Friend at an All News station says on Sunday "You Give Us 22 Minutes, You'll Hear The Same Story Ten Times"

Yep, R17, that is PR 101 for releasing bad news.

Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters on a Sunday morning.

On live TV.

r14, Your grandmother must have been a hardcore Diana fan.

[quote] Maher then poked fun at the sexuality of South Carolina Senator Linsday Graham, joking that after the bill was introduced, Graham 'volunteered to check for dicks.'

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R21 She was. My aunt later told us that my grandma was glued to TV news up that whole week after and got up early to watch the funeral live.

R20 A Sunday morning 61 years ago today, btw

[quote][bin Laden's] was arguably an extra-judicial execution.

Oh, FFS. He was responsible for the worst attack on the US since Pearl Harbor. He was the FBI's #1 most wanted terrorist. There was no doubt that it was him as he took direct responsibility for 9/11, openly so. He was a state-sponsored terrorist whose special talent was using America's weaknesses against America and Americans.

And you wanted him captured alive, taken into custody, tried and convicted before execution? You really wanted him and the rest of the world exposed to the loopholes, carve-outs and special dispensation such a high profile target would accord? And let's face facts: with this SCOTUS, they'd probably let him off due to his devout religiosity, and further, if it were truly an "extrajudicial execution," they would have put Obama on trial, convicted and executed [italic]him. [/italic]

Biden dropped out of the race on a Sunday

Wars are staged for the news. You didn’t know that?

Bin Laden wasn’t “arguably” an extra-judicial execution. I didn’t hear about any judges. And they dumped the body at sea before the press conference.

The way to hide a story is drop it after 5 on Friday. It'll be buried by Monday morning. PR 101.

Well statistically there are only 2/7 days that count as a weekend. So of course most major things won't happen on those days.

Be careful what you wish for, OP.

While there are certainly major examples of important events happening on the weekends, the vast majority of reportable news occurs on weekends because we're all working on weekdays--as are government agencies that create much of the news

When a story breaks on Friday afternoon, you can assume the industry, government, or individuals involved are hoping it receives as little attention as possible.

[quote] And let's face facts: with this SCOTUS, they'd probably let him off due to his devout religiosity,

Bear in mind that we didn’t have the SCOTUS panel we have now.