From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Anoush Zamoroti, filling in for Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Lost Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 is being covered by CNN.

In fact, Flight 370 and nothing else is being covered by CNN.

Over the past seven weeks, the channel has all but passed on the collapse of the

mid-east peace process, a deadly mudslide in Washington State, and a Russian land grab

in Ukraine.

The monomania has made the channel an object of ridicule.

Let's recap CNN's last week of the missing Malaysian airliner coverage.

There is a lot of non-Malaysian airliner garbage in the ocean.

The heavier of which sinks.

The lighter of which floats.

Let us go now to Wolf Blitzer in the new Duh room.

Somehow unchastened by the mockery, perhaps because it is now running a slightly less distant third after Fox and MSNBC, CNN is showing no signs of moving off the airplane story.

That, even though it is thinking aloud, about the frightening open-endedness of it all.

Could any of the investigators' assumptions up until this point have been wrong?

Of course, that's what many people are asking.

And what does this mean if they're going to have to recalculate the entire search at some point?

CNN's long slide from hard news to morbid infotainment has caught the attention of Andrew

Tyndall, who runs the television news monitoring site, the Tyndall Report.

He says that the cable channel risks losing its reputation, or what little remains of it,

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