Stop making fun of CNN's all-plane-mystery, all-the-time coverage

The network's critics are sourpusses

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It's easy to make fun of CNN's round-the-clock coverage of the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. At times, the network has dipped into the realm of the absurd. (No, a black hole did not swallow the plane.) Generally, media critics look down their noses at CNN for deciding to monomaniacally follow the story, as if it were some sort of an affront to News, Inc.

But do critics really want us to go back to an earlier era in news coverage? Or are they simply being snobbish?

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.