CNN Brings Toy Plane Durings Its Coverage of Missing Malaysian Airliner

The CNN daycare unit played a game of show-and-tell-nothing Saturday in yet another example of cartoonish crisis coverage. The Newsroom passed around a toy plane as prop for flight MH370 as its analysts worked through possible hypotheses — otherwise known as Breaking News make-believe — concerning the disappearance of the mysterious Boeing 777 that carried 239 very real and very missing people. The gimmick was likely conceived from the idea that channel-surfers would come across CNN playing with toys and stop, thinking, "Huh, wonder what they are talking about."