Then, when the latest airplane disappeared, CNN talked about nothing else. Really. I had heard they were obsessed by the Malaysian Air disappearance, but I had no idea how far it went. They don’t even do a “top of the hour” roundup of what else is happening in the world. And it is BORING. They will recruit a panel of “experts” who know absolutely nothing about the event in question. Six people all saying, “Well, it is too soon to know” is tedious. They even recruited a pilot to talk about flying in bad weather. But he was a pilot of fighter jets who had never flown a commercial airplane in his life!
And I know it was just the holidays, so some of the programming is junior varsity, but MSNBC fills a lot of its daytime with reruns of something called “Caught on Camera.” Whatever happened to 24-hour news?
But the really surprising thing to me was the technical superiority of Fox News over these other outlets. In every way that enhances the viewing experience—lighting, camera angles, makeup, sound quality, sets, supporting graphics—CNN just looks amateurish, like what you might see coming out of a high-school journalism class. MSNBC is better in these areas, but still not up to the Fox News standard.
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