We’re going into our 3rd week of of wall-to-wall news coverage of the the disappearance of the Malaysian 777.
Yesterday, I saw a “news alert” announcing that the cabin radio transcripts revealed nothing … English translation: no news to report.
And, I got a peak of a Chinese satellite photo of a “possible object” floating around in the Indian Ocean.
Question: Any idea how much garbage is floating around in the oceans?
Answer: Tons.
I understand that news outlets are keeping the real-time stream of newsless news up because there’s a market for it — their audiences are eating it up
Except for the passengers friends and families, I don’t get it.
Here’s what has me most perplexed ….
Why are 26 countries continuing to participate in the search efforts?
More specifically, why has the U.S. deployed aircraft carriers, state-of-the-art recognizance airplanes, the FBI, NTSB … and spent more than $4 million on the continuing search?
For what?
Reasons I hear are (1) rescue survivors (2) end the nightmare – get closure for the families. (3) solve the mystery — terrorism, whacky pilot, or malfunction?
The first — rescue survivors — is pretty easy to dismiss after 2 weeks with a search now centered in the Indian Ocean, a couple of thousand miles off the Australian shore. I guess that if they find the plane at the bottom of an ocean, then there’s no reason to search landing strips in terrorist-supporting countries for hostages. But, sure looks like that scenario has been ruled out already.
The second reason — closure — is emotionally dicey’
I deeply sympathize with the grieving families & friends.
But, let’s face it … their loved ones are gone … pray for their souls. Knowing that a loved one is 2 miles deep in an ocean doesn’t provide much solace. It just extinguishes any hope.
Personal note: my brother was killed in a plane crash so I really can relate to the families.
Which gets us down to solving the mystery.
To what end?
Maybe, to find a correctable design flaw so flying will become even safer … or find a malfunction so that Boeing can be sued — though that’ll happen anyway … or, be able to pin the loss on terrorists.
Then what?
With Benghazi as a guide, the bad guys won’t be brought to justice anyway.
3 Americans are presumed dead on MH370.
4 were known killed in Benghazi.
For them, Hilary simply shrieked “What difference does it make?”
So, why bother on this one?
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March 24, 2014 at 10:56 am |
OK…I was with you right up to the connection with Hillary. You have stumbled into the same mindset as the screaming media. Making a connection to MH370 that has no reality except stoking sensationalist speculation. Let’s blame Hillary and Obama for the black hole conspiracy also. CNN can assist with that.