Re: CBS covers the news big-time

[Dib9@aol.com]

I hope you're not serious.  215 people were on the plane, including 129 
Americans.  What I noticed was the coverage was much more restrained than the 
coverage of the JFK Jr. coverage, when only 3 people were killed.  The Sunday 
Taling Head shows covered the plane crash and then moved on to their 
scheduled interviews.  By early afternoon, the broadcast networks were all 
back to regular programming with only the news networks sticking with 
continuing coverage.  This was the appropriate way to handle things unlike 
the overkill with the JFK Jr. crash.  I think the coverage was appropriate 
considering the number of people involved and the fact that the cause of the 
crash is still unknown.

Our celebrity culture won another one this week: the Payne Stewart memorial 
service was carried live on ESPN, CNN and Fox News.  The John Chafee funeral 
was only on CSPAN.  The circumstances of Payne Stewart's death were certainly 
odd and is death is certainly a tragedy for his friends and family but 
something is out of kilter here.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine


In a message dated 11/1/99 12:13:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
lawyer@world.std.com writes:

<< I don't understand this, either.  JFK, Jr. wasn't on the plane!  Do all 
 plane crashes merit wall-to-wall coverage now? >>