Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - CNN: Overkill News Network
By Leonard Pitts
Enough, already.
Please, for the love of Cronkite: Give us a break from the missing plane. Yes, we all wonder what happened to it. Yes, our hearts go out to the families seeking resolution. But really,
I'm in the doctor's office the other day, right? I'm waiting for my missus and the TV is on and I'm half watching, half reading and you're covering the plane. And time passes. And you're covering the plane. And commercials intervene and you come back and you're covering the plane. And my wife comes out and it's time to go and it's been a solid hour and you're still covering the plane. Nothing but the plane.
I'm on your website maybe six times a day,
And
Sigh.
You know what,
Yes, you're right. That's so 1978 of me.
Look,
But then, Ed and Uncle Walter have left the building, haven't they? And yes, maybe they had the luxury of regarding the news as a public service, a sacred trust, consonant with
Fine. But this is not a trend without impact,
It seems like somebody ought to take a stand against that. Just saying.
Granted, the missing jetliner is not an unimportant story. But neither is it a story deserving of the kind of round-the-clock-man-on-the-moon-war-is-over-presidential-assassination coverage you have given it.
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