Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Jet Blue incident coverage: MSNBC's picture-in-picture wins


I have to give credit where credit is due--MSNBC had the best coverage of the Jet Blue landing tonight. They had the incident first, with a small screen with the detail of the malfunctioning landing gear in the corner of the big shot of the entire plane as it flew into Los Angeles.

Over at CNN, Paula Zahn and her bizarre lisp kept busy asking gold-medal-stupid questions of a retired pilot like: "What's going through your mind emotionally when you're a pilot in an emergency situation?" The pilot paused for a second, no doubt to remind himself that it's not polite to guffaw at one's interviewer on national television, and replied somberly to the effect of, "Well, Paula, you really don't think about anything but actually landing the plane safely..."

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