CNN - Missing Plane Coverage

[fadedrose]

I've been watching it as much as I can and am glad it's on. I bet their ratings are higher than they've been for ages. Can't understand why they are putting on a crime series now, and taking the plane coverage off. Dumb.

I am tired of Richard Quest. Sometimes he swallows his words so I can't understand what he's saying, sometimes he just copies the last thing he heard, usually from the prime minister of Malaysia, and sometimes he just contradicts what another guest said. I can't stand him.

When he's not on, I get more out of it.

[Gravitycollapse]

1. CNN, like all other mainstream news networks, is a fucking joke.

I only visit it when I feel like being depressed about the condition of the Fourth Estate.

[elfin]

2. Agree. They have redeemed themselves somewhat

Quest may know what he is talking about, but his accent does muddle things a bit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Prison porn is cheap to produce

ask MSNBC

[fadedrose]

8. msnbc is the reason I'm on CNN

Enough Christie already.

The prisons and crime shows - I put into the same category.

And channels SCI and H2 had nothing of interest that wasn't a repeat.

The worst thing was the virus my computer had. So slow and showing ads everywhere that I couldn't get rid of.

Another program they had on instead of planes was Weed2...which I had already seen.

It must cost a small fortune to hire someone to read the news off the teleprompter. Between the repeats and the commercials there's not much left to watch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Well, Christie is local news.

It's also easy to produce. Why do you think the cul de sac in my state rarely makes it to national? Hell Sacramento rarely does. It's not near LA. Yup, gotten cynical.

Christie deserves an update, when something major breaks, not every damn day.

[SheilaT]

4. I need to ask.

Since I don't have TV, I don't watch CNN. Had they gone to wall to wall coverage of the missing plane? And now they've gone to something else and you're bothered by that?

Is it possible that doing nothing but the missing plane for several days other stories of equal or, dare I say it? greater importance are being ignored?

While the missing plane is a reasonably important story, it's not the only thing that's happening. Okay, so some crime series is a whole lot less important, but if anything actually newsworthy happens they can always interrupt the series.

[Mojo Electro]

5. That crime show was scheduled I think,

and since they had nothing new on the plane, despite the frenetic tone of the day's coverage, they went with it.

[L0oniX]

11. I hear that they tied the missing plane to........ yep ...Benghazi.

[fadedrose]

12. Gees, Hillary stold the plane?

What will that girl think of next?

[fadedrose]

13. What makes the plane story so compelling

is that the programs are put together with experts in every field offering opinions, often disagreeing with one another. Also, new information comes in every hour either about radar, passengers, crew, pings, what's possible with flight altitude and what isn't...

and always coming back to they just don't know.

It is a mystery. That's the main reason so many people are getting addicted to the coverage. We who are watching are forming opinions that change from hour to hour.

And add to the science stuff is wondering what in the hell happened to the passengers? Are they dead or alive? So many days....hoping they are alive and trying to figure an outcome that has them alive and well.....

[SheilaT]

14. And so, once again one story locks out everything else.

I don't want to trivialize this, and I know that friends and relatives of those on board must be frantic because of the lack of news, but shouldn't there be some sense of proportion?

You've noted that many people are getting addicted to the coverage. I bet that's an accurate word but a scary one. Pay attention to one lost airplane. Meanwhile fracking goes on. The pipeline gets approved. There's a leak in the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) in New Mexico near Carlsbad that you probably haven't heard about. It's one of only three licensed storage places for radioactive waste that will take at least 10,000 years to be safe. Now it's been shut down. As long as it's shut radioactive waste will be piling up in various places. 10,000 years. That's longer than we've had civilization or written records. And we're, as a culture, producing stuff that will remain dangerous for at least that long.

[alittlelark]

6. Perfect segue to their MONEY-BOMB....

[geckosfeet]

7. I am getting all I can stand online. That way I can view it in tolerable doses.

Actually - I get almost all news online. No cable for me.

[L0oniX]

10. CNN needs another major San Fransisco earthquake. It's called "disaster economics"