horrific loss, he will have a life sentence on that alone. or this is a murderer and you better be clear on that. althoughly tell you i suspect probable cause will be found even on scant evidence. it s rarely not found in these hearings. it s such a difficult case. i wish i had more time but certainly we ll do wall-to-wall coverage on this as that probable cause hearing gets under way. philip holloway thank you so much. sunny hostin and martin salve vid doing the job. three years ago this week a florida mother was found not guilty of a very large crime. that mother, casey anthony accused and then acquitted in the death of her two-year-old daughter caylee. just ahead, cnn has new and exclusive photographs of what casey looks like now and what her life has become. . she hasn t been freed from her incarceration yet because
extraordinary mystery. that really is the key clue at this point, the plane itself. thank you very much to andrew stevens in perth where the planes are taking off to search that area now. another live update at the bottom of this hour. reliable sources starts right now. good morning. an welcome to washington. i m brian stelter. today on reliable sources i ve invited some of the best media experts i know to examine the continuing coverage of malaysia air flight 370. i m eager to hear what you think too. this has been a story unlike any other. frightening, riveting, heartwrenching and baffling and there s still no ending in sight. but up first, cnn. has been covering the missing malaysian airplane around the clock, that s no news to most of you watching at home, and the coverage has brought this network lots of praise, lots of viewers, but thumb s down from some media watchers. one of the harshest critic has been the king of cable news, bill o reilly, who seems to hate the wall-t
get in to do a little more. but cnn by virtue of being criticized for, you know, oh, wall-to-wall ridiculous coverage by virtue of all that criticism media critics and so forth, that s helped them. whenever people want to get an update they know to go to cnn because it s always going to be there for them. i think the criticism has done a tremendous service to cnn. we heard bill o reilly saying overcoverage of a story like this corrupts the news business. that s nonsense. no no. over coverage gets a bad wrap. on some of the sites and critics, over coverage as if simply going heavy on a story is a sin in itself. now, think about newspaper columnists or, you know, any print reporter. when they stay on a story, they get awards and the awards always say, stick to it. on the story, never let go of the story. the moment a tv network does the nonstop coverage, they re a
passenger. zombie plane. critic of this. don t you care about the passengers? don t you think this is an important story? don t the ratings show people want this cover? yeah, it s a really important story. those 239 passengers might have been murdered but we don t know. we don t know whether there was a fire. it is just reckless and it is undermining the credibility of journalism to be pushing this stuff when you don t have much to back it up. well, i think the tide has turned. last night the factor dominated in the ratings against wall-to-wall coverage of this. and i think people are starting to say, you know, enough is enough. however, the people don t usually watch news, howard. these are the people that are in now, the people that watch unsolved mysteries and all of this. they re coming in. but as soon as this story goes away, they will go away. the stuff is like crack. you can get a short-term ratings bump which might mean a half million people in the case of cable news. but,
passenger. zombie plane. critic of this. don t you care about the passengers? don t you think this is an important story? don t the ratings show people want this cover? yeah, it s a really important story. those 239 passengers might have been murdered but we don t know. we don t know whether there was a fire. it is just reckless and it is undermining the credibility of journalism to be pushing this stuff when you don t have much to back it up. well, i think the tide has turned. last night the factor dominated in the ratings against wall-to-wall coverage of this. and i think people are starting to say, you know, enough is enough. however, the people don t usually watch news, howard. these are the people that are in now, the people that watch unsolved mysteries and all of this. they re coming in. but as soon as this story goes away, they will go away. the stuff is like crack. you can get a short-term ratings bump which might mean a half million people in the case of cable news. but,