Flight 370 Research Paper

Flight 370: Why are we Still Covering it?

Did you know that many airplanes crash every year and it is not an uncommon occurrence. Most plane crashes are either caused by mechanical failure or by pilots. Depending on the severity of the crash usually shows the outcome of survivors. Out of almost all of the flights that have crashed this year, a flight now only known as Flight 370 was very unusual. On March 8, 2014, a tragic event has happened. An airliner that departed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had mysteriously disappeared. The plane was a Malaysia Airlines flight numbered 370 that carried 239 passengers. The plane model used by almost all airlines was a Boeing 777. The plane was heading north towards Beijing when the plane turned around

CNN, a popular news outlet in the United States began to covered the event. CNN is not the most reliable news source because they tend to be less facts and more on opinions by the reporters and guests and over reporters who cover big tragic events. Over covering means that one event is only shown on television and not many other major events that are happening at the same time. CNN was considered more of an entertainment news especially when covering flight 370. CNN reporters make up outragoues stories, even stories on how flight 370 disappeared by a possible black hole. CNN is just pandering this flight 370 story for the advertisers and it earned high ratings by gloryfing dead

Then after awhile, CNN went to every little detail on how, when, or why flight 370 disappeared. This article by Bankoff talks about Don Lemon’s reporting on flight 370. Don Lemon thinks that a black hole was the cause for the disappearance of flight 370. How does a black hole cause flight 370 to disappear? Black holes are in space and the gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape and black holes are not even close to earth. Don Lemon also thinks that flight 370 disappeared over Bermuda triangle and he thinks that flight 370 ended up on some island like the television show Lost. Don Lemon brings in guests for their opinion on if flight 370 disappeared by black holes, Bermuda triangle or end up like the television show Lost. One of the guest named Mary Schiavo said that “black holes will suck the universe, the Bermuda triangle is weather and Lost is just a television series” (Bankoff, 4). This story is silly because why is a black hole even mentioned in the story. It is like CNN is desperate for viewers. Not a single viewer can take the story