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-->-- '''Grí­ma Wormtongue''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

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-->-- '''Grí­ma Wormtongue''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers''
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* Howard Cosell of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' turned into this when Music/JohnLennon was killed in 1980. Thanks to Alan Weiss, producer for [[Creator/{{ABC}} WABC-TV]]'s ''Eyewitness News'' (at the time, the highest-rated local newscast in the country) being brought to Roosevelt Hospital after a motorcycle accident, overhearing the cops saying the blood-soaked, lifeless man they'd just brought in was John Lennon, and lying on a gurney right outside the room where the surgical team tried to save him. Weiss managed to get word to his staff, who contacted Roone Arledge, then head of both ABC News and ABC Sports. He promptly passed it down to Cosell, who was in the booth calling a game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins. Cosell and the other commentators debated during a break whether or not to announce it, but ultimately agreed.

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* Howard Cosell of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' ''[[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Monday Night Football]]'' turned into this when Music/JohnLennon was killed in on December 8, 1980. Thanks to Alan Weiss, producer for [[Creator/{{ABC}} WABC-TV]]'s ''Eyewitness News'' (at the time, the highest-rated local newscast in the country) being brought to Roosevelt Hospital after a motorcycle accident, overhearing the cops saying the blood-soaked, lifeless man they'd just brought in was John Lennon, and lying on a gurney right outside the room where the surgical team tried to save him. Weiss managed to get word to his staff, who contacted Roone Arledge, then head of both ABC News and ABC Sports. He promptly passed it down to Cosell, who was in the booth calling a game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins. Cosell and the other commentators debated during a break whether or not to announce it, but ultimately agreed.
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* The Australian film ''The Telegram Man'' (2018) has the title character delivering telegrams to isolated Outback farms, a job that makes him quite popular as the bearer of news from the outside world... until World War II breaks out.

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* The Australian film ''The Telegram Man'' ''Film/TheTelegramMan'' (2018) has the title character delivering telegrams to isolated Outback farms, a job that makes him quite popular as the bearer of news from the outside world... until World War II breaks out.
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* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Mervyn (The Sheriff of Rottingham) comes to tell Prince John about Robin. Prince John tells him that he doesn't want to hear BadNews. The Sheriff tries to tell him the news while laughing about it. John asks him, "What are you insane? That's terrible news!"

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* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Mervyn (The Sheriff of Rottingham) comes to tell Prince John about Robin. Prince John tells him that he doesn't want to hear BadNews.bad news. The Sheriff tries to tell him the news while laughing about it. John asks him, "What are you insane? That's terrible news!"



* ''Series/TheBarrier'':Regularly used, since, when LearnedFromTheNews isn't used, either the police or one of the two main families finds out about something a significant amount of time before someone else who is entitled to the knowledge.

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* ''Series/TheBarrier'':Regularly ''Series/TheBarrier'': Regularly used, since, when LearnedFromTheNews isn't used, either the police or one of the two main families finds out about something a significant amount of time before someone else who is entitled to the knowledge.

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