KUALA LUMPUR: Hilarious but with substance. That would describe best on how Jon Stewart mocked CNN on its intense and relentless coverage of the missing MH370.
On a video that can be viewed here, Stewart expresses that he is getting tired of CNN’s near-total obsession with the MH370 hunt.
Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, director, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He has over the years hosted numerous TV shows with the latest The Daily Show.
Having won numerous Emmy and Grammy awards and one of the highest paid personalities in late-night shows, Stewart showed no mercy in belittling CNN’s ‘tomfoolery’ in covering the MH370 news.
He went on an onslaught against the network for manipulating and maximising issues on the plane’s mysterious end.
“CNN is ‘using every part of the tragedy’ and going in any conceivable direction possible to find ways of covering the news, even literally just ‘pointing at shit and wondering what it is’,” said Stewart.
He went on to ridicule that in the past week, CNN has actually been able to report that there is a ton of waste and that heavy things sink while lighter things float, which is supposed to be ‘news’!
In other words, as Stewart puts it, “There was a lot of non Malaysian airliner garbage in the ocean, the heavier of which sinks, the lighter of which floats.”
‘Not a single shred of evidence’
Stewart went on to even suggest that CNN should “look up their own ass****s for the plane” as they just cannot resist wildly speculating on the MH370 incident.
Stewart in a witty remark summed it up and wondered if CNN is just bored with the idea of reporting things now.
Meanwhile, Mediaite also reported, in a mind-boggling manner as to how CNN has managed to extrapolate the entire search into a nearly 3,000-year hunt.
It said that someone on CNN actually estimated that it would take 2,955 years to search the entire ocean for the plane if they went mile by mile.
CNN’s weather anchor Chad Myers explained, “If you never stopped for fuel and you never stopped for new sailors, it would take you 2,955 years to map the ocean with one ship.”
MH370, with 239 people including its crew on board, went off the radar about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Beijing at 12.41am on March 8.
Search efforts are into the fourth week but not a single shred of evidence has been found to-date to determine the fate of the Boeing 777-ER200.
The Malaysian government declared the plane “ended its journey” in the South of the Indian Ocean but fell short of confirming if it has crashed. That puzzle still hangs in the air.
Source: FMT
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