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Every late night show host has made jokes about the over-coverage of the missing plane on CNN. People all over the internet are complaining about it, except that journalistic genius Greta Van Susteren who apparently believes the Malaysian government feels pressured by CNN?
I'm sick of the coverage as well. But I also realize that this story will eventually pass and be replaced with another story that will dominate for longer than needed.
Best to get your news online. I get mine from nbcnews.com and can quickly move past a story I care nothing about.
I just hate when I'm stuck having to watch it in some waiting room. Last thing I want to see while waiting for my car to be fixed is screaming and crying family members with news cameras in their faces not letting them grieve properly. They are doing the same thing now with the ferry disaster.
CNN is on the air 24/7 so they have to fill up their broadcasts with something. CNN is also in the entertainment business and their success relies upon good ratings, thus the sensational gets more coverage than the substantial. I blame the population as much or more than the news agencies for lightweight content. If substantial stories drew better ratings than the fluffy, juicy, lurid or tragic ones, then we would be getting more substantial stories.
I pay very little attention to televised news, pretty much only when there is a breaking story that lends itself to interesting visuals. I prefer to read my news, that way I control the focus. I can skip that which strikes me as irrelevant without wasting time. On televised news you have to wait through whatever they are covering.
I have been doing this for quite some time now, it dates back to when President Clinton had been subpenaed to give a deposition in the Paula Jones harassment lawsuit. It took place on a Saturday and CNN devoted its entire day to covering the story.
Only there was no story. The testimony was to be sealed by the courts, so nothing was going to be learned about what was said. The CNN crew was camped out in front of the office building where the deposition took place, and Clinton and the other participants came and went via a back entrance, so there were not even any visuals to add to the story. Still, they were out there all day talking about the lawsuit or anything else they could think of to fill the time.
It was six hours of nothing, no news, no pictures, no reason to be there at all.
I don't bother to watch CNN anymore. It's one overkill/faux-crisis to the next. Al Jazeera America and Current TV are the only news stations which even attempt investigative journalism these days.
CNN is on the air 24/7 so they have to fill up their broadcasts with something. CNN is also in the entertainment business and their success relies upon good ratings, thus the sensational gets more coverage than the substantial.
I wouldn't think that covering the same story over and over and over again for weeks on end would help with their ratings.
I don't watch CNN regularly, but every single time I have turned it the past few weeks, it has been nothing but the Malaysian airplane situation. So for the past several days, I haven't bothered with CNN at all. It's not that I have no compassion about the passengers and their families, but until there is some REAL news about it, I'd like to hear some other stories.
It's not that I have no compassion about the passengers and their families, but until there is some REAL news about it, I'd like to hear some other stories.
Exactly - we've got Mr. Putin channeling his inner Stalin, and the continuing domestic shenanigans, among other things, that are much more newsworthy than this story where nothing new seems to be happening.
Is CNN aware the Stanley Cup playoffs have begun??
I stopped watching CNN 3 years ago. Obvious bias. I actually use to think they were middle.
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