A freaking 8.0 Earthquake strikes and CNN doesn't move from their Plane coverage

[itsrobert]

wow.

[MoonRiver]

1. My husband and I were just talking about that!

Thank goodness I have DU for my news source!

[truebrit71]

3. Wait...you expect them to do actual news?

When they could keep going with mindless chit chat and endless speculation?

[TeamPooka]

4. when they have video and a graphics package made they will run it non-stop for 3 days

[Wilms]

8. Bingo! n/t

[itsrobert]

5. Update: They just did an initiatl 5 second bulletin

before the commercial break.

[gvstn]

22. This is exactly how they treated the mudslide

For three full days. 100 people missing and unknown how many dead and they mentioned it for 10 seconds twice an hour for the first three days. The rest of the time was cockpit simulator. It was a disgrace.

They could have easily gotten video coverage from local stations and used that footage. I guess they couldn't "afford" a ratings slump as they got people interested in a new story. There new director that Zucker guy is destroying 30 years of CNN's reputation with his "three big stories a day" philosophy.

[Loudly]

6. They could go on tsunami watch and capture another whole audience!

[Brother Buzz]

13. Last time there was a tsunami watch from a Chilean earthquake they couldn't find Hawaii

[villager]

7. Where was the quake!?

[itsrobert]

10. Off the coast of Chile

n/t

[Electric Monk]

12. I see you have 10,003 posts now. So, does that mean your OP here was post #10,000?

[villager]

14. yeah, went to a non-CNN website and found it right away!

Tsunami warnings and all! Thanks for the better-than-CNN heads-up here!

[MoonRiver]

11. Northern coast of Chile. 8.0 magnitude with tsunami warnings for several countries.

Hoping everybody has time to run!

[JimDandy]

18. 60 miles off the Chilean coast.

And it has generated a tsunami wave.

[malaise]

9. They are obsessed with that missing aircraft

They have lost their collective minds

[amandabeech]

15. It is completely ridiculous.

Nothing about the sign up period for non-Medicaid ACA coverage, nothing about Ukraine, nothing about the possible release of Pollard, nothing about the ridiculous Ryan budget.

They're not my favorite news source, but they have been better than this by a long shot.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

28. It's like the 'Runaway Bride'

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/01/wilbanks.found/

meanwhile the Earth is going to disappear

[amandabeech]

30. Good grief, how could I forget.

Actually, I didn't pay much attention to them during that period, just like I'm not paying much attention to them now.

They have been better than "Runaway Bride," as well.

I really wish that we'd see more segments from CNN International, unless they're about that plane!

Don't get me wrong. The plane is a tragedy and it would be a good idea to find out what happened to see if anything can be learned to prevent similar problems, whatever they were, from happening in the future.

But this is just ridiculous.

[tblue37]

31. But I need to know something--Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead? nt

[Kber]

16. It was carrying the last of their professional integrity

When the plan went down, it took their credibility with it.

[IDemo]

17. Their professional integrity disappeared into a black hole n/t

[malaise]

23. DUzy

[eShirl]

19. finally covering it

edit: that didn't last long.

[MoonRiver]

20. Back to non news?

[malaise]

24. Let's hope that the missing aircraft debris

shows up on the Pacific coast of South America - the the CNN morons would have live double disaster public orgasms

[MoonRiver]

25. Yeah, that's the ticket!

CNN's wet dream!

[AlinPA]

21. They can't find it on the map of South America. They once had Hong Kong on the east coast of SA.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/cnn-hong-kong-map-11000-miles.html

[maryellen99]

26. A 8.5 could hit LA

And they still would only cover the plane.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. We had a major landslide and it was kept in the background

fishy

[yeoman6987]

29. Americans are on the plane that is why

[Aerows]

32. Chicken Noodle News n/t

[rainbow4321]

33. They didn't give hardly any coverage when it was reported 170+ people missing

after the deadly mudslide. Was hard to wrap my mind around that...close to possibly 200 people MISSING here in the US after a natural disaster and it was mentioned as a blurb on CNN in between plane coverage. At this rate, if (heaven forbid) a devastating earthquake on the West Coast does hapen, we MIGHT get a blurb scrolled across the bottom of the CNN screen as we see nonstop reports about the missing plane ("and back to our flight simulator...). I notice the only time that CNN goes to other coverage is when it's time to show their Chicagoland film but they preface it with a panicky don't worry...we will be right back to plane coverage soooooon or we will break into the show with ANY news information!