I just don't get it

Okay, I had the TV on in the background while I was surfing around on the net. It was showing some sort of "Karaoke contest" program, where various celebrities -- only some of them actually singers -- had to draw a date out of a hat ("August, 1986") and then do karaoke to the number one song from that month. One mistaken word, and they were out. I swear, one of the celebrities performing on this show was only a celebrity because she had oversized (for Japanese women) breast implants.

In the middle of the show, the local broadcaster sounded the "breaking news" chime. I looked up and saw a crawl at the top of the screen saying something about "three Japanese people" and "Baghdad." The show continued underneath.

A few minutes later, the local broadcaster cut -- in the middle of a song! -- to a news feed. Turns out that at that moment Al Jazeera was showing footage of three Japanese people being held hostage by enemy forces in Baghdad. The Japanese newscasters started giving details, translating what we were seeing --

-- when they cut him off and went back to the karaoke show!

I wonder if someone called and complained that they were missing the music...

(Other channels stuck with the news feeds.)