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[gonzo21]

You know there's many things in this world I do not understand. I'm a reclusive mountain hermit, I don't really get the world at the best of times. But see the media's weird sick fetishistic fascination with air crashes? And the way they pore over every detail, and rush to bring people images of the wreckage

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[siduri]

24 hours news channel need to fill their time, so when something big happens like a plane crash, they are assured of hours of coverage and a captive audience. This happened on a Friday, so they now have an entire weekend to keep people enthralled while they look for the plane, show the show, the wreckage, the talking heads, all this fills the hours which means they run commercials-lots of them. There is money to be made, at least on US news networks. I have not turned on a news channel in literally years. I get news text alerts on my phone, that is enough.

[gonzo21]

And they have all these 'experts' on to talk about nothing at all and state obvious things. I swear, I don't know what the average IQ level is these days. But sheesh.

[siduri]

And it is all speculation until the black box is found. Yeah, the talking heads, they are filler until there is actually something to report.

[mlknchz]

THIS JUST IN!

NO NEW INFORMATION about Egyptair flight!

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[gonzo21]

Here's an expert to tell us that finding things on the ocean floor is quite hard!

[gonzo21]

And often by the time they do find out something worth reporting, the media circus has moved on because it takes weeks/months for the forensics guys to recover the data, and by then it's not entertaining enough anymore to get anything other than a brief mention.