fox had been playing up the possibility that the plane had been hijacked and flown to pakistan even though there was never any credible evidence for that. with that in mind this puch research center study surprised me. 60% of people surveyed said there had just been the right amount of plane coverage produced by the press or, get this, not enough coverage. 33% polled said there had been too much coverage. joining me now is the president of the pew research center, alan murr murray. thanks for coming on. >> great to be here. >> were you surprised as i was that so many people were satisfied with the coverage and only one third thought -- >> no, i wasn't surprised at all because i know your folks here at cnn are looking at the ratings every day, they're giving people what they want. that's the nature of the media world we live in. consumers have lots of choices. so they can choose to consume the news they want to choose. editors don't get to decide anymore what people consume. people are choosing for themselves. >> i hope editors still have some role. but you're saying they have less role. >> they have less of a role in this world than they did three decades ago.