a) The usual amount of tragedy-milking. I shudder to think of the impending 'HOW DO YOU FEEEEEEL?' interviews with victims' friends and family.
b) The usual armchair expertise from punditry.
c) Fairly concise and accurate coverage from what I had heard.

That's odd.  All three had the crash on their radio networks this morning with CBS News Radio even giving the number of Canadians on board.

Prod Guy wrote:

That's odd.  All three had the crash on their radio networks this morning with CBS News Radio even giving the number of Canadians on board.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear in my post. It's not that they didn't cover it - it was the second item - it's that it wasn't placed first in their line-up. Normally, if 176 people are killed in a plane crash, that leads every newscast. Instead, they chose the Iranian missile attack on an air base, in which no one was hurt. I was questioning their priorities.

The only conclusion that makes sense is that no Americans were on board that doomed plane - and thus the AmNets didn't think it was as important. It tells you something about how their producers think.

paterson1 wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

I was looking at CNN's site yesterday morning at about 8 and they mentioned the 63 Canadians dead in the plane crash. But I couldn't find a single mention of it at any of the Canadian sites I went to. Couldn't believe they were all so far behind the story.

That's really strange because I saw the first word of the story just after 6am on both CP24 and CBC News with Heather Hiscox.  I remember this since I am not usually up watching these channels at 6am.  Neither had much detail but they both had the crash and that 63 Canadians had been killed.  Odd then why the website had nothing.

This morning on CNN I didn't see anything on the crash.  Watched for about 10 minutes after 8am and there was nothing. They may have had something later however.

Right now CNN's focus is not on the victims of the crash, but the reason for the crash (suspicions are growing that the Iran may have accidently shot down the plane). It's the reverse here, because there were so many Canadians killed. Either way, it's a dreadful, heartbreaking story.