- TV news analyst Andrew Tyndall pens a column in The Hollywood Reporter about CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of MH370. Although the coverage “has been vindicated by increased ratings,” Tyndall notes it was not without its drawbacks: “Too often [CNN] abandoned actual journalism — reporting events known to have happened — to engage in speculative discussion of increasingly cockamamy theories (black holes?) about what happened inside the plane.”
- In an ad airing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this week, Maria Bartiromo is urging viewers to “come on over” to her new Fox Business show. The ad is a “change of address card” for Bartiromo, FBN EVP Kevin Magee tells Variety.
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- As former “Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver prepares to launch his fake HBO news show, he tells The Washington Post that the real cable news channels have become like “ADD children, banging around from story to story then returning to their main story, which is where the [Malaysia Airlines] plane is. They’ve basically become like news jazz. It’s the stories they don’t tell; that’s what you’re really supposed to be listening to.”