My fiancé gets fixated on breaking news, so I had CNN on for about 2.5 hours this evening. My takeaway: - CNN Anchors don't understand that using the phrase "we don't want to speculate, but..." doesn't immediately give you license to speculate wildly - As usual, the 24hr news channels spend more time vamping than reporting. At one point, I'd swear they had the international anchor literally reading specs on the B777 from the Boeing website (or Wikipedia) - Wolf Blitzer continues to prove that he's the biggest idiot in news (as opposed to "news", which is where I'd classify the Fox friends). On multiple occasions he asked their aviation expert about passengers getting "sucked out" of the exposed tail section of the plane - which a child could tell you isn't possible since the cabin would be pressurized at sea level for landing; explosive decompression (and the accompanying "suck") would only be possible at altitude, when the cabin and the outside air are at different pressures. - Blitzer part deux: in the 4:00 press conference, the SF fire chief mentioned that 60 passengers were unaccounted for. Blitzer harped on this number for an hour. At approx 5pm PDT, he did a phone interview with the SF office of emergency management, who said that at that hour, only 4 were unaccounted for. Instead of asking the obvious question - what has changed in the previous hour? - he basically accused the rep from SFOEM of lying about (or not being honest about) the unaccounted for number, and basically tried to pin the rep down on the hour-old information instead of expanding on the more updated number. After another 15 mn, they threw to the update presser at SFO, where the FD chief updated the unaccounted for number to 1 - instead of reporting the updated figure, Blitzer continued to harp on the 60 figure, and how the number provided by OEM "seemed more plausible now" - even though both figures were now officially out of date. It was at this point that the fiancé relented to a channel change. (It's worth nothing that MSNBC immediately picked up the "1 unaccounted" figure while CNN continued to report old data.)
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