History WorstNewsJudgmentEver / RealLife

* Instead of airing Queen Elizabeth II's funeral like most channels, Channel 5 in the UK aired several animated movies.

** The Mueller probe and the allegations of Russian interference into the 2016 election got a lot of attention got a lot of attention on the political left, but were downplayed on the right. This one may have aged better than some examples, though, because the Mueller probe didn’t end up finding much evidence of interference.

* Instead airing of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral like most channels, Channel 5 in the UK aired several animated movies.

* ''[[WebVideo/AniMat [=AniMat=]'s Crazy Cartoon Cast]]'' sometimes does this with celebrity deaths related to animation:

* Instead of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, Channel 5 in the UK aired several animated movies.

* On 23 July 2011, Music/AmyWinehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning. Her death virtually removed any mention of the previous day's events in Norway, wherein neo-Nazi Anders Breivik detonated a car bomb within an area of Oslo which hosts several governmental buildings, killing 12 people, before going to Utøya Island - the location of the Norwegian Labour Party's Workers' Youth League camp - and shooting dead 77, most of whom were teenagers.

** Despite happening the day prior to the episode's live broadcast and the actress in question playing a role in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'', the death of Pat Carroll was not mentioned in "Guess Who's Back?". Instead, most of the episode was devoted to trailers.

** This trope was mentioned in "Remembering Russi Taylor". [=AniMat=] mentions before the first story that sometimes, big news stories related to animation will break out just as he finishes that week's podcast, and fans will point this out in the comments of the [=YouTube=] uploads of the podcast, saying that this was the case with the story in question (Creator/RussiTaylor's death).

* Fuji TV once [[https://twitter.com/an3km2lv/status/1343392386043371520?s=20 employed a teleop, usually used for breaking news,]] to announce that ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba The Movie: Mugen Train'' became the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan.

** Despite happening the day prior to the episode's live broadcast and the actress in question playing a role in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'', the death of Pat Carroll was not mentioned in "Guess Who's Back?". Instead, most of the episode was devoted to trailers.

* ''[=AniMat=]'s Crazy Cartoon Cast'' sometimes does this with celebrity deaths related to animation:

** Despite happening the day prior to the episode's live broadcast and her playing a role in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'', the death of Pat Carroll was not mentioned in "Guess Who's Back?". Instead, most of the episode was devoted to trailers.

** While the episode that aired the week of Creator/BettyWhite's death was a year in review episode, many viewers expected it to be covered in the next week's episode, "We Don't Talk About Rocco", being that she had several roles in animated works. Instead, the ''Series/SesameStreet'' meme about Elmo's feud with Rocco the rock was the featured story.

* NHK E-Tele, which usually runs breaking news as it happens, did not report on the assassination of Shinzo Abe. Instead, they ran several children's programs, including ''Hanakappa'' and ''Series/OkaasanToIssho'', as normally planned.

* On the week of June 13th, 2022, PBS was supposed to air coverage of the hearings regarding the January 6, 2021 captiol riots. Instead, most stations aired the coverage on a secondary channel in favor of children's programming. Complaints over this decision led to further hearings about this event really being broadcast starting later that month on June 28th.

* NHK E-Tele, which usually runs breaking news as it happens, did not report on the assassination of Shinzo Abe as it happened. Instead, they ran ''Series/OkaasanToIssho'' as normally planned.

* On the week of June 13th, 2022, PBS was supposed to air coverage of the hearings regarding the January 6, 2021 captiol riots. Instead, most stations aired the coverage on a secondary channel in favor of children's programming. Complaints over this decision led to further hearings about this event really being broadcast starting later that month on June 28th.

* On the week of June 13th, 2022, PBS was supposed to air coverage of the hearings regarding the January 6, 2021 captiol riots. Instead, most stations aired the coverage on a secondary channel in favor of children's programming. Complaints over this decision lead to further hearings about this event actually being broadcast starting on June 28, 2022.

* On the week of June 13th, 2022, PBS was supposed to air coverage of the hearings regarding the January 6, 2021 captiol riots. Instead, most stations aired the coverage on a secondary channel [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/15/pbs-jan-6-hearings/ in favor of children's programming]].

* Once in the UK news media, budget cuts were happening to NHS hospitals in Ormskirk, Wigan and Southport, but the papers chose to focus on Gigi Hadid instead, to the exclusion of other more important local political news. This was possibly {{Filler}} [[UpToEleven taken to a new extreme]] or RefugeInAudacity. Ironically, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Gigi Hadid]] is ''huge'' in those towns, more so than UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates.

* Gordie Howe was a legend in the world of ice hockey. Even if he wasn't ''quite'' at the level of Wayne Gretzky, he was still one of the most respected names in the industry. Unfortunately, he had the misfortune of dying shortly after Muhammad Ali and Kimbo Slice, the former of who was an even bigger icon (and about fifteen years younger) and the latter who, while more of an cult name in the MMA world, died at the young age of 42. But then, Howe's death was completely overshadowed by the murder of pop singer Christina Grimmie at a concert in Orlando, Florida. Grimmie was largely unknown to the greater public, being mostly recognized for her stint on ''Series/TheVoice'', but she had a cult fanbase on Website/YouTube. But she was only 22 when she was shot and killed by a fan (possibly an ex-boyfriend) after a concert. While Howe's death was sad, it was hardly surprising as he was 88. This wasn't about Howe having less recognition than Grimmie so much as the fact that the latter's death was a shocking murder that ''nobody saw coming''. Also not helping Howe's case were the other major news stories surrounding it, namely the announcement of UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton as the Democratic presumptive nominee for the U.S. presidential election and the controversy surrounding the sentence of former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner for sexual assault. However, all of these stories were eventually overshadowed by the Orlando nightclub shooting, as it was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The shooting also made the deaths of legendary voice actress Janet Waldo and (in a lesser way) of Michu Meszaros, the actor that portrayed ''Series/{{Alf}}'' in costume (in which the few outlets did cover Michu's death set up their reporting in a way ''that implied that Alf puppeteer Paul Fusco had died''), complete afterthoughts outside of television-related sites, though they wouldn't have been front page news anyway.

* In the United Kingdom, budget cuts were happening to NHS hospitals in Ormskirk, Wigan, Southport but the papers chose to focus on Gigi Hadid instead, to the exclusion of other more important local political news. This was possibly {{Filler}} [[UpToEleven taken to a new extreme]] or RefugeInAudacity. Ironically, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Gigi Hadid]] is ''huge'' in those towns, more so than UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates.

* On March 28-29th, 2022, major news events included, in no particular order: the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; accusations Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife was actively involved in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election; a federal judge declaring then-President Donald Trump was likely tied in to criminal actions regarding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot; Florida signing a controversial anti-LGBT law; and a vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African-American female Supreme Court Justice. So what story dominated coverage in newscasts and front pages? Creator/WillSmith slapping Creator/ChrisRock at the Academy Awards, complete with the photo of the slap on every front page and various editorials about its impact.

* On March 28-29th, 2022, major news events included, in no particular order: the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; accusations Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife was actively involved in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election; a federal judge declaring then-President Donald Trump was likely tied in to criminal actions regarding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot; Florida signing a controversial anti-LGBT law; and a vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African-American female Supreme Court Justice. So what story dominated coverage in newscasts and front pages? Creator/WillSmith slapping Creator/ChrisRock at the Academy Awards, complete with the photo of the slap on every front page and various editorials about its impact.
* On April 12, 2022 the death of actor and comedian Creator/GilbertGottfried was completely ignored by every major news network, which spent the day covering a shooting attack on a Brooklyn subway train.

* NewsParody shows will usually have [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent a non-news related episode]] after a national tragedy, [[JustifiedTrope for obvious reasons.]] It can still lead to MoodWhiplash though.

* On April 12, 2022 the death of actor and comedian Creator/GilbertGottfried was completely ignored by every major news network, which spent the day covering a shooting attack on a Brokklyn subway train.

* On March 28-29th, 2022, major news events included, in no particular order: the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; accusations Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife was actively involved in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election; a federal judge declaring then-President Donald Trump was likely tied in to criminal actions regarding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot; Florida signing a controversial anti-LGBT law; and a vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African-American female Supreme Court Justice. So what story dominated coverage in newscasts and front pages? Creator/WillSmith slapping Creator/ChrisRock at the Academy Awards, complete with the photo of the slap on every front page and various editorials about its impact.

* The Stoneman Douglas shooting was briefly this, because about two days after the shooting, news coverage of the attack was drowned out by coverage of Robert Mueller's investigation as he had indicted several Russian nationals for conspiracy charges. It didn't last though, and the shooting quickly returned to the forefront upon the formation of Never Again MSD, the Emma Gonzalez speech in Fort Lauderdale, and the group's first few days of activism.

* On March 28-29th, 2022, major news events included, in no particular order: the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; accusations Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife was actively involved in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election; a federal judge declaring then-President Donald Trump was likely tied in to criminal actions regarding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot; and a vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African-American female Supreme Court Justice. So what story dominated coverage in newscasts and front pages? Creator/WillSmith slapping Creator/ChrisRock at the Academy Awards, complete with the photo of the slap on every front page and various editorials about its impact.