Not A “Developing Story”

On The Huffington Post, Bill Barol takes CNN to task for “bannering some hours-old video of a Las Vegas hotel implosion with the words “DEVELOPING STORY.” Question over here, please: In what sense is a hotel implosion not a finite event?”

Barol writes: “The charges are placed, the switch is thrown, the hotel goes down. End of story — literally. Nobody’s saying it isn’t impressive video, but can’t CNN at least have the vestigial shred of intellectual honesty to say, in effect, ‘We’re gonna play this and play this and play this all day long, just because it’s cool?’…”