5 Feet of Fury

Ed Driscoll on CNN: Where News Goes To Die

Ed Driscoll on that irritating background noise you hear at the airport:

…their business model is built around making CNN ubiquitous so that it’s every viewer’s go-to first choice when there is a gigantic breaking news story,  a la 9/11 and a Space Shuttle explosion. (That and annoying every airline traveler in the country.) Which is why their day-to-day ratings are so anemic; Fox puts out a far more watchable product, and Comcast’s MSNBC has the hard left base covered…