# I'm sick of hearing about that plane (MH370) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997 "2014-03-31T16:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/1 "2014-03-31T16:26:54Z")
When MH370 first disappeared, I eagerly followed the news and was waiting for the sudden discovery and flood of evidence…which never happened. For weeks we’ve been hearing “Breaking News! New evidence (maybe) found!” followed by “We didn’t find anything meaningful.”, followed a few hours or days later with another breaking news bulletin that something else might have been found but we don’t know a lot about it, but _this time_ it might be different!" repeat ad nauseam. Anyone else sick of the plane game? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/2 "2014-03-31T16:53:05Z")
What plane? ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/3 "2014-03-31T17:04:11Z")
Don’t turn on CNN. I used to watch them in the morning to get an overview of the news, now I don’t bother because this is all they talk about. The one story with absolutely zero information to report is the one story CNN reports on 24/7. That’s how reporting is done on Bizarro planet. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/4 "2014-03-31T17:06:42Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Anyone else sick of the plane game? I’m not. But then, I still periodically check up on the status of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/5 "2014-03-31T17:07:35Z")
It made a good mystery for a few days but it is looking like they may never find it. The black box is going to stop pinging in a few days. The Onion covered this quite poignantly: [Families Of Missing Flight Passengers Just Hoping Media Gets Closure It Needs](http://www.theonion.com/articles/families-of-missing-flight-passengers-just-hoping,35572/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/6 "2014-03-31T17:10:46Z")
I’m starting to think that the Malaysian government knows exactly where that plane is, what happened to the people on it, and why, and keeps throwing the rest of us off track for reasons we may never know. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/7 "2014-03-31T17:26:47Z")
Is it bad to wish that Ted Turner still owned CNN? Because this shit wouldn’t be happening. Yeah, I was sick of this shit by the second day. Posted as much on my FB page saying the media should be legally required to admit they were talking out of their asses. And I’m still going with the Zombie Plague/Diverted to Diego Garcia theory. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/8 "2014-03-31T17:27:32Z")
I have been waiting for [this moment](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ286Fpq7Fs). ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/9 "2014-03-31T17:36:32Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’m starting to think that the Malaysian government knows exactly where that plane is, what happened to the people on it, and why, and keeps throwing the rest of us off track for reasons we may never know. This. Malaysia knows exactly what happened and where the plane is they just don’t want the world to find out about their secret Space Plane Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/10 "2014-03-31T17:41:50Z")
Poor Don Lemon…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/11 "2014-03-31T18:27:20Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > But then, I still periodically check up on the status of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Breaking News!!! Generalissimo Francisco Franco may still be dead. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/12 "2014-03-31T18:28:26Z")
According to one of the tabloids, the US government took it somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/13 "2014-03-31T18:33:10Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > When MH370 first disappeared, I eagerly followed the news and was waiting for the sudden discovery and flood of evidence…which never happened. For weeks we’ve been hearing “Breaking News! New evidence (maybe) found!” followed by “We didn’t find anything meaningful.”, followed a few hours or days later with another breaking news bulletin that something else might have been found but we don’t know a lot about it, but _this time_ it might be different!" repeat ad nauseam. > > Anyone else sick of the plane game? You said it! This just in, news about the missing plane. Latest reports indicate that the reporting of information that could have indicated the sighting of a plane have now been expanded to say it could have been something that is not a plane at all. This breaking news is an exclusive. Now, more from our special reporter on the possible sighting of what may very well be a plane but probably isn’t. Fellow Imbecile, what about this shocking latest development? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/14 "2014-03-31T19:59:36Z")
“N. and S. Korea are trading fire at this moment. I go to CNN. Some guy is talking about the battery in the black box. STOP IT” @AlbertBrooks ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/15 "2014-03-31T22:06:16Z")
Why are people still watching news on TV? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/16 "2014-03-31T22:19:02Z")
Same thing happened with TWA800. Weeks of news flash special reports, breaking away from regular coverage to listen to some guy say “we found two chair cushions and a suitcase handle.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/17 "2014-03-31T22:25:26Z")
Had a spirited discussion with a colleague a few days ago. They were angry that this story is getting ALL of the media attention and couldn’t fathom why [The landslide in Washington State](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/deadly-landslide-in-washington-state) is not getting much television coverage. It seems to me ( and I shared this with my friend ) that the theory of " If it leads, it bleeds" of local television seems not to be applicable this time. First of all, no station is going to be showing clear High Definition footage of locals and volunteers pulling maimed filthy rotting body parts out of the 30 foot deep wall of muck and torn up massive trees. " This is Chip Torn on location as local barber Mike McKutch removes the legs and lower torso of what appears to be a nine year old girl from the devastation. So, Mike, how do you feel right now? Here, let’s just wipe the cascade of fresh vomit from your beard and shirt so we can interview you…there you go! So, Mike, how did it feel as we watched you remove that body part? " No. Not really this. See, Seattle bleeds and cannot lead. They can only dig so deeply into the terrible images and horrific pain the locals are feeling. The networks will get the kind of backlash they got in Newtown, which after a year was posting “Stay the FUCK off my Lawn, My Sidewalk, my Town” ( sic ) signs to let the media know to be very much not present. The local news knows better than to exploit. These are their people, they’re walking a tightrope. The airliner mystery is devoid of gore and chock-a-block full of, well, mysterious gummint bullshitting, double-talk, lack of data and terror of the unknown coupled with fear of the ocean. Which, as though we needed to be reminded, is just very immense. As in we- are- so- damned- small- and- lack- control- of- our- environment- even- though- we- like- to- think- we- can- control- our- environment- and- wrap- up- a- complex- story- with- many- variables- in- 55- minutes- just- like- NCIS- can immense. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/18 "2014-03-31T22:28:00Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Don’t turn on CNN. I used to watch them in the morning to get an overview of the news, now I don’t bother because this is all they talk about. The one story with absolutely zero information to report is the one story CNN reports on 24/7. That’s how reporting is done on Bizarro planet. This reminds me of the summer of 2010, when CNN became the “You Shouldn’t Bully Gay Teens Because It Might Make Them Commit Suicide” channel. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/19 "2014-03-31T22:32:55Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > This reminds me of the summer of 2010, when CNN became the “You Shouldn’t Bully Gay Teens Because It Might Make Them Commit Suicide” channel. Which is why cnn Headline News was a good idea. No nonsense news reporting. Then it became the Nancy Grace channel. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/20 "2014-03-31T22:34:49Z")
Yes, I’m annoyed. And I say this as someone who loves watching Air Crash Investigation, and who was initially relieved at having something new to focus on that didn’t involve looking at Sergei Lavrov’s face. We don’t know anything, and the media keeps recreating “breaking stories” to tell us that we don’t know anything, or we might soon know something, maybe. CNN actually had a “developing story” a couple days ago that informed us that a Boeing 777 will crash when it runs out of fuel. Oh, really? 3 weeks and that’s what you give us? What’s next, a story on how the wings falling off will affect the plane’s aerodynamic capabilities? If they actually find something from the plane, I’ll get interested again, but at this point it’s gotten ridiculous. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997.md?page=2)