#MH370 MYSTERY : HOT BREAKING NEWS !! MH370: CNN told to shut up and admit they don't know what happened

MH370: CNN told to shut up and admit they don't know what happened

The Mole

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"But when we don’t know the answer, we should just say so — and then shut up." Robinson wrote about CNN's coverage of the MH370

As search for the missing MH370 moves into the second week, the 
Malaysian authorities,struggling with an unprecedented operation, continue to receive 
"bad press" especially from the Western media with local outfits, suffering from 
inferiority complex, are too keen to emulate.

No doubt, many among the young impressionable local journalists see the 
confident, articulate and smooth Western media personalities as models to style 
themselves after.

If only they are a little more discerning, they would have realised how arrogant, 
conceited and condescending some of these Western media hacks can be 
apart from being inaccurate, misleading, sensational and utterly baseless, 
as they themselves compete to justify their existence to their superiors.

What Malaysia is going through today is reminiscent of the 1997/98 economic 
crisis when the Western media, gleefully spinning yarns after yarns, predicting 
the collapse and end of  Malaysia, a small nation that tried to modernise itself yet 
refusing to "submit" to the dictates of the West.

They were overnight financial and economic experts, literally telling Malaysia how 
it should manage its economy, accept the "helping hands" of the International 
Monetary Fund (IMF) and swallow their prescriptions no matter how bitter.

And when Malaysia refused, the "attacks" by the Western media became 
concerted, predicting the worst and attempting to pummel Malaysia into submission.

The Malaysian opposition, many of them are still around and one or two 
of their personalities, were more than keen to be the conduit for the "IMF 
economic colonisation" of the nation.

However, Malaysia came out of it intact and in fact, its solution has become 
a term of reference by other nations facing similar economic downturn.

Ironically, some of the Western publications which had been critical and 
condescending on the way Malaysia managed its economy, are no more in 
existence or have been taken over by new managements, and guess why: it is 
because of their failure to manage their finances well.

Such things may be petty. However, to take the Western media's opinion too 
seriously can be devastating to the nation.

More of concern should be their bias. How they feel they can be so flippant 
in criticising small,developing nations but not doing likewise when dealing 
with their own countries.

This is especially glaring when, first the US and then Europe, suffered from 
economic downturns that they are still reeling from until today.

Where were the economic and financial experts from these Western media? 
Since they could foretell and lecture Malaysia and the smaller nations on the 
who, what, where, when, why and how; surely, their could have saved their own 
homelands of the blushes and sufferings.

But we digress.

Back to the MH370 and the Western media, The Mole had yesterday published 
an article written by a Malaysian who goes by the handle KijangMas Perkasa, 
and his views should have put some of these smug media practitioners to 
shame if not knock some decency into them.

Three days ago, The Mole had also published an article by a very articulate 
blogger Jebat Must Die, who, apart from expressing his disgust for a local 
politician's attempt to politicise MH370 while accusing the Malaysian 
Government of politicising it, had also exposed CNN's participation in the 
misrepresentation of what actually happened.

Of course, the Western media should not all be painted with the same brush 
and while his criticism is levelled at the CNN specifically and the CNN does not 
represent the Western media exclusively; but the practices of others had 
been similarly consistent.

But CNN which prides itself as setting the standards of Western journalism, is also 
the target of Washington Post columnist and frequent MSNBC talking 
head Eugene Robinson who didn't mince his words about what he felt about 
the manner CNN conducted its reporting on MH370.

The Mole is reproducing below an article of what Robinson felt about CNN:

Washington Post columnist and frequent MSNBC talking head Eugene 
Robinson has joined the chorus of critics arguing that CNN has gone too far 
with its wall-to-wall “speculation”about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 
plane. In a new column, Robinson singles out CNN for chasing long-shot
“theories” about what happened to the airliner rather than admitting they — 
like everyone else — don’t know what happened.

“Let me go out on a limb: The Malaysian airliner did not get sucked into a black 
hole, vanish over the Indian Ocean equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle or 
crash-land on the spooky island from ‘Lost,’” Robinson begins, citing 
one of Don Lemon more “preposterous” segments this week.

He acknowledges the ratings bump CNN has received from its coverage while 
also adding this disclosure:  

“I do commentary for MSNBC, a competing network that also is obsessed 
with the lost plane.”

Of course, as Fox’s Bill O’Reilly pointed out on his show this week, MSNBC has 
likely done the least amount of coverage on the plane of the big three cable 
news networks.

Robinson ends his column with some advice for CNN and any other media 
organization trying to cover this story from all angles:

I think there must be something in all of us that is drawn to mysteries and 
disappearances. When stories are incomplete, we have an instinct to write 
endings. “What happened?” is the basic question that all journalism tries to 
answer.

But when we don’t know the answer, we should just say so — and then 
shut up. Endless content-free coverage deserves to be eaten by a black hole.

As long as viewers keep tuning in to hear what crazy theory CNN can promote 
next, it’s unlikely that they will heed his call.

source : the mole