The harm it must do - the endless TV 24 hour MSM news cycle during disasters....

[KharmaTrain]

8. The Worse Damage Is What They're Doing To Themselves...

...the credibility of certain networks (coughCNNcough) are suffering big hits by their terrible coverage of the Boston bombing. This demonstrates the results of constant downsizing that has driven real journalists from the "mainstream" news media and its been replaced with personalities. Yesterday's embarrassment for Chicken Noodle Nuze is a prime example...John King and Wolfie were more concerned with their "exclusive" and "being first" than being right. I suspect they were set up to look the fools they are...more concerned with their ratings and "relevance" than actually covering the story.

To their credit, MSNBC and NBC held their powder when others were ready to convict...faux took their cues from CNN (too lazy to do real news, but then they never really did). Pete Williams has done a stellar job in getting what little information is out there and putting it in a proper context.

By crying wolf...be it predicting election results that didn't happen or arrests and suspects that didn't exist, the credibility, especially of CNN, have taken a major hit. This was once the "go-to" network in a time of crisis and they've destroyed that credibility with their handling of this tragedy. My only hopes is that its corporate management finally wakes up to how far this network has fallen and make some very fundamental changes...but I'm not holding my breath and could care less.