Rating the Airliner Story

Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2014 | Rich Galen

[Parley Baer]

“Watching some of this coverage is painful” after criticizing a rival network for doing five minutes on a possible electrical fire on board.”

Hey Bill, the easy answer is don’t watch it if it bothers you.

[publius911]

I didn't see that segment, but it is impossible to miss the fact that CNN is now wall-to-wall in its Flight 370 coverage and I wondered why they were betting so heavily on that one story.
The answer is: Ratings.

I have watched CNN more in the last couple of weeks than in the previous 10 years.
Why? Hard news; not Obama-managed, not moron-liberal managed.
Kudos when kudos are due.

And regardless what Bloviator O'Reilly whines about, CNN's wall to wall coverage is a plus, since no person with a life can watch any hard news network 24/7.

If CNN is smart, they will learn the obvious lesson. Hard news beats questionable, uninformed and idiot opinion every time. Specially with a stable of progressive Obamabots, which until the airliner mystery came along were essentially the OMNN, Obama Managed News Network.

There is also a message there for FOX, if they are humble enough to see it. ALL their regular opinion programs are predictable and redundant, when a hard news world event breaks.

For the moment, my most watched Cable News Network is CNN. They probably still have the best world network and resources capable of instantly covering any event worldwide.
In spite of the embarrassingly inept ignorant of science, technology, geography, history and general knowledge talking heads.

[longtermmemmory]

I would have dropped Oreilly. He is just current affair tabloid tv on cable.

no substance at all.

[publius911]

Cheap huckster’s trick: keep the audience focused on your right hand so it isn’t watching what your left hand is doing.

Not a problem, if viewers are knowledgeable, engaged and interested, with a brain, and can also multi-task.

[publius911]

Shepard Smith and others on all the networks have gone with sensational claim after another without vetting the data with pilots that understand the physics of flight. They have done a great disservice to the public.

Hard to believe these talking heads are so ignorant. It is painful. Most of the issues discussed I could understand thoroughly after graduating high school; specially math, science and technology.

[the OlLine Rebel]

The 777 is not brand new.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You forgot shark attacks. That was big along with Levy, and partly on the tail of it.

[Terry L Smith]

theoilline reb le wrote:
“The 777 is not brand new.”

Having fully retired from the aerospace industry, and removing all my irons from any such fires, I remember that particular plane as the one most touted in airline commercials, and such. Therefore, it is new, to me.

When the aerospace business began to be dominated by union thugs, dullards, and Negroe politicians, it was time to find a new niche.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Now you MSM guys keep The People focused on the missing jet and away from impeachment?

Well at the very least, the health care debacle.

CNN barely mentions it and ABC's Nightline went 17 1/2 weeks without touching on it. The last mention from Nightline on health care was Nov. 14, 2013.