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Media coverage of MH370 enters ‘Twilight Zone’, says columnist

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The non-stop global media coverage of the missing flight MH370 has entered the “Twilight Zone”, says a Washington Post op-ed piece today.

Eugene Robinson said he did not dispute the fact that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was a mystery but hit out at the “orgy of... pure speculation” surrounding the search for missing Boeing 777-200ER (9M-MRO).

The plane disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board en route to Beijing. That is the only indisputable fact at this point.


Yesterday, Australia released satellite images of objects found floating in waters 2,500km from Perth.

Robinson was particularly scathing about the way cable television networks – singling out CNN – have responded to the search for MH370, which enters its 14th day today.

“CNN has soared to the top of the cable news ratings – at times besting even behemoth Fox News – by covering the story ceaselessly, and by that I mean you wonder when the anchors get a chance to go to the bathroom,” Robinson said.

After the Australians released the satellite images, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper tweeted that he was rushing back to the studio to cover this breaking development.

This was despite the fact that all the Australians had were photographs of two pieces of debris, which might or might not be from MH370.

Cooper turned up at the studio to “tell us the same thing, as if we were hard of hearing”, said Robinson.

He attributed the frenzy of reporting in the past week to less and less information being disclosed by the Malaysian authorities.

“Speaking of the Malaysian authorities, they have poured buckets of gasoline onto this bonfire of speculation. They have given so many different versions of basic facts – when was the plane last heard from, which way it was heading – that 'according to Malaysian officials' has become shorthand for 'don’t take this too seriously',” he said.

Their reticence to disclose information is behind much of the media guesswork.

Robinson said the best educated guess was, for example, the “clever satellite triangulation that indicates searchers should concentrate on a wide arc stretching north into central Asia and south into tracts of the Indian Ocean far from shipping lanes”.

This was confirmed by the debris spotted in the Indian Ocean, which is close to that arc.

Echoing Robinson's view is the Los Angeles Times, which said reporting on flight MH370 has “turned into a spectacle – not the good kind”.

Meghan Daum, writing in the American paper in its online edition, said that “the lack of any real information has pushed television news to new levels of unintentional self-parody. Commentators have used desktop model planes as props. Aviation experts seem mostly engaged in finding newer and pithier ways to say 'I don't have the faintest idea'.”

Taking a more charitable view, Daum said: “A situation like this one, in which there's barely a 'who, what and when', much less a 'where and why', defies quick answers. It asks us not only to be patient but to accept the possibility that we may never know what happened. And for a culture that's not only addicted to information but expects to have its questions answered instantly, that's intolerable.” – March 21, 2014.

lol bomoh king surely feels vindicated

next week he will be on CNN