New York Times’ new media/tech reporter, Brian Stelter reports that CNN has dropped its crawl — “the unending stream of news capsules that have inched relentlessly across the bottom of cable news programs for seven years, disappeared from CNN last Monday.”

Survivors include CNBC, Fox and other cable and broadcast news programs.

Now I wish CNN would stop proclaiming everything it covers as “breaking news.” Turning to CNN at random times over the past week, every story seemed to be accompanied by on-screen graphics claiming this to be “breaking news,” but most were not. Brian, can you get on that, please?

Meanwhile, check out the story, “The Flipper Challenges the Crawl.”