CNN Gets High Ratings on Malaysian Flight 370 Coverage

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<You may have noticed a certain theme in recent coverage on the 24-hour news channels… a certain missing airplane and speculation on where it might be. Malaysia’s Flight 370 has been the big story on cable news recently, but nowhere has it been bigger than on CNN. Despite the almost complete lack of information about what happened, CNN made it a semi-permanent story, pre-empting many shows for Flight 370 coverage—mostly consisting of speculation, since there were hardly any facts to go on. By the time the network’s Don Lemon was speculating that the plane might have disappeared into a black hole or was the victim of something “supernatural,” you might have been forgiven for wondering if some kind of craziness was in the air at CNN.

Well, if CNN’s crazy, it’s crazy like a 24-hour fox. Because the tragedy of the lost jetliner has been a joyous occasion for the network, whose ratings have improved dramatically thanks to the story. >


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/the-missing-plane-that-saved-cnn-200235767.html

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1. That figures. CNN ratings improve when they have NO news to report.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. CNN is the equivalent of the Examiner at the checkout stands.

IMHO.