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.
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.
Why, discussing how Benghazigate and the failure of the ACA rollout caused MH370 to go missing, of course.
Oh, I’m so sick of hearing about that plane!
“There are too many motherfucking stories on that motherfucking plane!” – Samuel L. Jackson
I wouldn’t have heard about the shit going down in Venezuela if not for a guy on a message board who’s been caught up in it.
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.
I blame Obama for the plane crash.
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…
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.
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.”
Oh sure, blame Muslims for everything.
someone compiled 28 consecutive days of CNN Headlines in a handy list.
