Stories taking a look at the coverage of the event. We want to get your thoughts on the Media Coverage of the Malaysia Flight 370. For those of you who live in the eastern and central time zones, 202 5853880. For mountain and pacific time zones, 202 5853881. Have beene op ed critical of coverage and some have been supportive. If you want to send us a tweet, it is cspanwj. You can also reach us at journal cspan. Org. A little bit from the Associated Press this morning. Search planes were dispatched on thursday to determine whether to large objects bobbing in a remote part of the ocean was part of a possible debris field of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. Spotted had aects dimension of almost 80 feet. The other one was smaller. There could be other objects in the water nearby the area. That is from john young, manager of the australian Maritime Safety authoritys division. A couple of things to share with you this morning. Rachel brody talking about the coverage and her piece. Flight 370s disappearance over covered. It has brought more traffic to its site than any story since the japanese soon on the. Cnn has been criticized for devoting hours to the missing claim. Courtney love believes she found the missing plane in satellite images. The network has seen a huge ratings bump. Ages 25 to between 54. For our first 45 minutes, your thoughts on the coverage. See if you have learned something from a, if you think it is too much. Again, if you want to reach out to us, 202 5853880 four eastern and central time zones. For those of you and the mountain and pacific time zones. It participation by twitter i think coverage is overboard, especially when the media speculates on everything that may have happened. You can share your thoughts on the lines or on social media. This is danny, west virginia. I agree. I think it has been ridiculous. They have had no news, no facts, no information. They keep reporting constantly. It is ridiculous. Bey are ignoring things like Transpacific Partnership that are going to completely undermine all of the levels of is in the country and effectively a corporate takeover in the United States. Host have you watched any of the coverage . My job requires me to be monitoring two channels of Television News and two screens of computer all the time. Yes. I am watching it. Theres nothing there. It is just lips moving and no information. Host you have not learned anything from the coverage . Caller only that they have no fax. They spot something in the water and they sent some boats out than when the boats get there. There, the boats get theres nothing there. Host good morning. Caller i agree with the last color. We have a lot going on in the world. We are not getting the coverage that we should be getting like over in the ukraine. And all the things that are happening in this country they are ignoring it. I am ill, so i have been watching it. It is constant. They started i was watching is when theyight picked this up and they have gone all through the morning. It, but it is the same thing over and over again. I guess i am hypnotized by it. I do not know. Host how much of the coverage have you watched on tv . Caller all love it. It is the same thing. I feel sorry for the people and i keep thinking that theyre going to that there will be a resolution. One way or another i was hoping they would find the plane on land. That got my attention. I discounted that. I do not think that is possible. In real deepobably water. I believe it is the indian ocean. I dont know. The last one that was like this, it took two years for them to find it. Poor people that and lost their loved ones it breaks your heart. Bill, suffolk, virginia. I wanted to say, i believe that those people are all gone now. It has been so many days passed by. That size, you cannot find it nowhere at all . The only credible evidence that at aboutfound five past 12 00 our time. It is strange that we cannot find something that thebig. Host have you been following a lot on tv . Caller i have. I feel sorry for the people in malaysia. It is sad. I hope and pray it dont cause no big problems. Host what keeps you tuned into the coverage . Caller i love to look at cspan anyway. Lanes areuation crashing planes are crashing all over the earth and they find them. This is 239 people and there are some children on it. It is so sad. I am not going to blame no type of culture, it is so sad. Host some thoughts on Media Coverage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. We are getting your thoughts as well. Call, want to give us a 202 5853880 i. In the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 5853881. You can tweet us as well. We read a piece taking a critical look at the coverage. Says someorker being does seem to have reprogrammed the plane navigation. Make what we know about the knowledge of the plane fit into our models. We are startled to learn that aviation experts cannot make sense of it from there and either. It is easy to get the feeling that they are asking for our theories and assistants. The piece is called in defense of endless flight 370 coverage. Daniel, shelby, north carolina. Caller good morning. They give for taking my call. Opinion, listening to you this morning and jumping onto other news channels on the radio, everyone probably talked about it in the span of about five minutes. Morning, it has been over covered. It is probably because it is so topelling for people consider being on an airplane and it just disappear. If it had crashed, it would have been a day or two for it to get off the new cycle. Because there is no resolution horrible, i dont know if it is any more horrible than the numerous amounts of planes that crashed throughout the year. Because there has been no resolution is why we keep seeing it. Host have you learned anything from the coverage . , i would notnow say that i have learned anything from the coverage. I do not know that there is as far as earn the thing i have learned the most is that i was surprised by the response of the malaysian government to have covered up as long as they did. That thesed United States government. As far as learning something, i would say that you learn more worksthe way modern media as opposed to learning how we respond. Too much coverage, we need to focus on real issues in america. Twitter, available. Phone lines available, and facebook as well. Dennis, youre up next. I have been watching. I cannot help but watch. They are doing it because it is getting good ratings. It is really frustrating when there are so many other things going on in the world and this takes so much time. I can understand giving a little bit time at each news at the beginning of each newscast to talk about things that are new. It is just a rehash of everything. It would be a lot better news news is supposed to be facts, not speculation in that kind of thing. Speculation is a big driver of the ratings. I think we are getting too much of it. There are a lot full lot there are an awful lot of other things going on in the news and we are watching all discovered from the airplane. Putin is over there, it is important that the world knows what is happening over there and in other places that we have problems. But we areverage, getting what we are tuning into. Natos role in what is going on in the ukraine will be at the top of the segment. And off lead story from the Washington Post looks at the accelerator problem for toyota. Congress and the public have been lied to about the sudden acceleration of the vehicle. It caused the Worlds Largest automaker to be hit with a fine the justice department. Says it misled americans by making deceptive statements about the safety problems that caused its vehicles to speed up uncontrollably. Safety regulators and federal say gm has taken more than a decade to issue a switchfor an egg ocean problem that has linked to 31 accident and 12 deaths. Barra talking about issues going on with her company. She writes gm will learn from our cobalt failure. Gmryone mgm everyone at regrets that it took so long to issue a recall. We are deeply sorry for the lives lost and the lives affected. This goes back 10 years to vehicles that we no longer make, but i am responsible for resolving it. We are taking extraordinary steps. She lays out some of the steps in the oped. Susan, boston, massachusetts. Caller i think the coverage has been overwhelming. The one thing about all of the coverage that i found so shocking was the revelation of in one passport control. I was naive. I wasnt aware that there was such a heavy use of fraudulent and stolen passports. Myher thing is the father would be rolling over in his grave that we are not availing ourselves of the latest and greatest technologies to keep passengers safe. Tohave to start advocating get streaming videos and those. Ng educational in many ways. Thank you for having me attorney the attorney, having her your program is great. To watch thatant program that susan referenced, that took place on the show. Go to our cspan website. If you go to cspan. Org, we have the video library. Will give you all of the video that is related to it in our archives. Lisa, washington, d. C. Caller thank you. I have not called in a couple of years. My 90. 1 radio every day. Much to add in terms of what a lot of people said. I know the pressure for networks is great. To jump him what the previous caller said, clearly because , becauseno new news this is unusual, it could get interesting when they Start Talking about how unusual it is and how there is no existence or anything like that. Out, when that stand i listen to the rebroadcast when , itstart the shows at 12 00 was incredible to me that less after it had happened, or maybe he was 24 hours because march 8 what was that, a friday . Within 24 hours, the pressure they felt to say what had happened, i could not believe it had already caused David Gregory to say when we start off the extend want to condolences to all of the families who lost loved ones in the crash. My mouth could not close. I could not believe he had already said the word crash because it was so it was not determined from anybody that the plane had crashed yet. Think they did not retract or anything. Nobody probably even remembers that that was said. Lisa, washington, d. C. She mentions the sunday shows in air without commercials on the radio on sunday. You can listen to it as you do other things. The New York Times takes a look at a recent federal ruling when it comes to voter rolls. Rules. The federal judge in kansas ordered election authorities to help require proof of registeringof voters in a decision that could set a trend for other republican dominated states. The states sued the agency to force the action after it had turned them down. The Supreme Court ruled last june that Congress Holds full power over federal election rolls but indicated that states can require proof of citizenship in state and local elections. Ruling, the judge characterized the decision by the Election Commission to deny requests as unlawful and in excess of statutory authority. He said congress had not preempted state laws requiring proof of citizenship through the National Voter registration act. Good morning. I am 75 years old. I am an ex military veteran. Me how this one story has taken up the whole news space from local to National News when we have other things going on. Just like the immigration thing. All of the other local things that happen every day, the crashes, the dope deals, all of this that is an everyday deal. It is all taken over by big money, whirring about who is going to be the first one to say, worrying about who is going to be the first one to say ok, we found the wreckage, we knew it was hijacking and all of this. I thought from day one it was a hijacking. Why, who where and cares until it is over and done with . Thank you for giving me some time. Have a great day. Caller and itime watch your show consistently. Host thank you for participating this morning. You can participate off of twitter as well. Mhe every issue of our day, sensationalized and every aviation expert from paper airplanes to 747 pilots want airtime. Jack james says dangerous, damaging, delusional, and horrible for the families of the missing. Roberts, washington, d. C. Caller good morning. The news media has become an entertainment source, not so much information worthy. There is more information that needs to be broadcast. The media is focusing on this and ignoring everything else. Obama is taking away our civil right and our Second Amendment rights and he has the power to detain any american for any reason for any amount of time, but no one cares about that because they want to focus on an airplane. With Airport Security so tight now, rather than try to hijack airport, from mthe you can steal the plane and hide it. There will be people more than willing to hide an aircraft. You fill it full of explosives and you fly it into the capital and d. C. And mark it up as another plane. The media is so focused on entertaining everyone then broadcasting news that they can affect us as americans. Tot is what keeps us glued the television. That is my opinion. Host that is robert from here and washington, d. C. The president heads to florida to participate in events. One of the questions asked of him in an interview was about the flight. [video clip] we put every resource we have search process. Fbi, anybody, but who typically deals with anything related to our Aviation System is available. Thoughts and prayers are with the families, but i want them to be a sure that we consider this a top priority and we will keep working with the International Community to see if we can get to the bottom of this. Missouri, thank you for holding on. Were talking about Media Coverage of the Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Caller as far as the Media Coverage of this airplane going, like the lady from massachusetts , it shows what we are lacking. I learned about the passports. We doo pertains to how not have there was another airplane that went down. Was supposed to have airline put on their where they could keep track of it for. Ore than 30 days indianlearned about the ocean and how shallow it was and how deep it was. It was a learning process to me. On no tv or no subject matter for 24 hours. I dont look at the same old same old. Whatk at anybody and see their experts or people in the field are telling you and what you can learn. , going ont remember airplanes, you need to know. If it was your relative missing, you would want to have it forefront. Serious concern with state Unemployment Insurance deal. A group of 10 senators are working to approve a fivemonth extension of the federal benefits plan for the jobless that would back a benefits to late december when the Program First expired. If enacted by congress, the benefits will continue through the end of may. As part of the agreement, the proposed legislation or wire more job training for longterm jobless workers in order to continue receiving insurance benefits. The deal would eliminate state or federal Unemployment Benefits for laidoff workers whose gross income in clue did whose gross income for the Previous Year top 1 million. Boehner has signaled no eagerness to take up the issue and a letter written by an association representing state official who distribute it Unemployment Benefits. The story goes on from there. That was in the Washington Post. If you are just joining us, you are invited to give your thoughts on the Media Coverage of the Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Some new developments in the Early Morning hours. Your thoughts on the coverage of Malaysia Flight 370. Keith, waterbury, connecticut. Different append and opinions. It seems like the American Media is doing what theyre supposed to be doing. My main problem is with the malaysian government. Theyre giving contradictory statements. It is like a red herring. I wish the United States government would focus on areas that need to be watched. A lot of things have been going on in this world. Maybe the plane is there. Illinois, good morning. To your question about , i think it is more cynical. I think it landed somewhere. I think the nsa and smartphones plane, we should have more information about where exactly and what happened to the plane by the smart phones are on that plane. Senator rand paul of kentucky speaking to an audience in berkeley, california. Heres a picture of the event that took place yesterday. About privacy issues and things to the group there. He got a standing ovation for his speech. Another picture that has a senator talking. It shows a little bit of where he is talking from the podium. The story says the junior senator from kentucky and likely contender for the 2016 republican president ial nomination was following in his by drawingotsteps crowds of enthusiastic young followers. His policies criticize government surveillance programs. That is from the mercury news this morning. Patricia, texas. I am from belton, texas. The president has stated that he militaryvailable excess out there searching for this pieces of this airplane. My thoughts go out to the families and the military. Thank god for them. What if it is a ploy . Host what do you mean a ploy . Caller to get our military in these positions and then someone wherever,yonder or you know, attack us while we are looking at this. We have the president worrying about obamacare at the white house. Speak out much. I hardly watch any news. This kept me up all my long. I am stressed over this. I am so confused. It does not make sense. Sense to wheree the debris is and i heard someone say