Is the news boring the crap out of you? Do what the smart people do -- Make it up yourself!
How? Find any news article online that you have read today. Find the second sentence in the third paragraph of the article. Find two more unrelated news articles and repeat. This is your news snippet.
Here is my example:
Google also is bolstering its mobile-ad business. The priority is to retrieve hunters who might be low on food and heating fuel, and get to them before the next storm hits, possibly this weekend, Blair said. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was up 32 percent in the six months to September, the biggest two-quarter gain since 1975, while home values increased by $244.7 billion, according to the report.Now rewrite the paragraph so it still contains some of the same facts/people, but reads a little better:
Investors were buoyed by a report outlining positive gains in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which has grown 32 percent in the last six months, the biggest two-quarter gain since 1975. This news comes on the heels of an announcement by Google that they are bolstering its mobile-ad business. "This is terrific news for tech savvy hunters, who have been investing so they could afford to buy food and heating fuel, which will be critical if they are to survive the massive storm threatening to destroy their small community next weekend." says Arthur Blair, Chief Strategery Director of the National Council for Misinformed and Obscure Sources.I SO should have been a journalist.
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