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

near Indonesia and headed south towards the Indian Ocean. Before air traffic controls, and the worlds eyes we lost an airplane never to be seen again. Several countries had sent rescue parties to the Indian Ocean to find the wreckage of Flight 370. Other than random floating objects that could have come from other airplanes no wreckage was ever recovered from this flight. Although things were found it was not linked to flight 370. It is now 2015 and flight 370 has still not been found.
This tragic event caught international news attention from all over the world.

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

people.
When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared, CNN started to report on it.

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

seriously.
Also the tragic event was over covered on CNN as an attempt to earn high ratings. If an average person turns on CNN around the time the flight 370 disappearance was covered, the only event they will see is about flight 370 and. Most plane accidents get some CNN coverage but not as severe as the coverage of flight 370. There are more tragic events going on in the world and yet CNN won’t cover it. CNN over covered the event just to attract more advertisers. CNN earned high ratings after flight 370 was covered. CNN earned high ratings by just covering flight 370 only because “CNN's use of data to track the habits of consumers online and on TV helped the outlet realize that the plane story had legs “(Abbruzzese, 3). What it means by the plane has legs is that this accident is not like any other accidents because a plane disappear and people want the news to see if flight 370 was found. I think it is terrible for a story to be over cover but CNN loses ratings when they don’t talk about people dying and videos of people killing other people.
Airplanes crashes do happen due to mechanical failure or pilots. What planes disappearing to be never found? That is what happened to flight 370. Flight 370 disappeared in the Indian Ocean. The disappearance of flight 370 caught international news attention especially CNN. CNN over covered the event and made up theories on how fight 370 disappeared to earn high ratings. The real concern should be will we actually ever find this airplane along with other lost airplanes to recover the bodies families have lost?