# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/41 "2014-04-01T17:41:15Z")
> [@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. I thought about this for a while, but then remembered China has a pretty big stake in this because of how many Chinese passengers were on board and the final destination being Beijing and how much international news coverage there’s been. I think the Chinese government would push their way in and fuck some people up if they thought the Malaysian government was covering anything up. I think the Malaysian government doesn’t know too much and the only thing they’re ‘covering up’ is their incompetence in dealing with an international incident of this magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/42 "2014-04-01T17:41:24Z")
> [@troubledwater](#): > > Not to worry, CNN is already covering how sick you are of hearing about that plane: > > [How much is too much missing plane news?](http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/30/how-much-is-too-much-missing-plane-news/?iref=allsearch) Correction: They’re covering what a good job they’re doing. What a blowjob fest that was. CNN isn’t happy enough reducing itself to the lowest common denominator for profit, it has to get its “experts” to tell us all how awesome they are for doing it. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/43 "2014-04-01T17:45:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What do you think they should be saying about Obama? Why, discussing how Benghazigate and the failure of the ACA rollout caused MH370 to go missing, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/44 "2014-04-01T18:26:59Z")
Oh, I’m so _sick_ of hearing about that plane! ---
**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:** [April 1, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/45 "2014-04-01T18:33:28Z")
“There are too many motherfucking stories on that motherfucking plane!” – Samuel L. Jackson ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/46 "2014-04-01T21:59:01Z")
I wouldn’t have heard about the [shit going down in Venezuela](http://rt.com/news/venezuela-clashes-deaths-39-505/) if not for a guy on a message board who’s been caught up in it. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/47 "2014-04-01T22:27:58Z")
The news media have done this for as long as I can remember: take one single story and pound it into the ground until you’d sooner toss your TV out the window than hear another word. Anybody who lived in the Washington DC area in 1990 will remember the Marion Barry crack arrest thing. For months 75% of every local news program would be about Barry. For a few years around then, you would literally never hear the word “Iran” in the media without it being followed by “-contra.” And everyone who was at least grammar-school aged in the mid nineties can recall the endless OJ Simpson circus. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/48 "2014-04-02T06:03:43Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > MH370 is a good diversion for the MSM to have in order to not have to say anything about Obama. I blame Obama for the plane crash. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/49 "2014-04-02T09:23:24Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’ve recently heard that sort of situation referred to as a “prayer the devil answers.” I rather like that turn of phrase. In djinn stories, it’s usually phrased as “be careful what you wish for”, but the other’s more colorful. Reminds me of the summer of '97 when all you ever heard about was Princess Diana and her new love affair with Dodi Fayed. Every single day was Diana/Fayed, Diana/Fayed, Diana/Fayed, etc etc blah blah ad infinitum. Finally, one late August afternoon, when I turned on the TV and saw yet another Diana interview, I shouted out loud (and my roommates at the time can attest to this) _“GODDAMN I am so SICK of hearing about this, I wish something would happen to her so we just don’t have to HEAR ABOUT IT anymore!!”_ And then the interview segued into what the news story was actually about… ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/50 "2014-04-02T12:14:26Z")
I wonder how much of this is driven by self-reinforcing data collection. CNN camn only track clicks on its own site(s). If most of the stories are about the plane, most of the clicks will be about the plane, and someone somewhere may be thinking “looks like everyone wants to know more about the plane!” without grasping there’s little else _on their site_ users can click on. Clicks on other topics may well be occurring, but they will have to occur on sites CNN can’t track. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/51 "2014-04-02T12:26:06Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I had the same feeling. I got to the point where I thought, “I hope we have some big REAL news story to knock this out of the headlines.” > > I didn’t want a story THAT big. :smack: What drove Paul Walker’s wreck out of the top billing on the news sites? It took Nelson &^%$# Mandela dying. And yes I thought of that immediately after I got the news: “OK, I’d better see nothing about Paul Walker next morning.” ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/52 "2014-04-03T15:03:52Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I blame Obama for the plane crash. Oh sure, blame Muslims for everything. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997/53 "2014-04-04T07:36:24Z")
someone compiled 28 consecutive days of CNN Headlines in a handy list. [[Album] CNN Journalism Fail ![](https://i.imgur.com/YrUyqqA.png?fb "CNN Journalism Fail") ](https://imgur.com/a/5g3Jx) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-hearing-about-that-plane-mh370/684997.md?page=2)