Veteran US TV host Larry King has slammed CNN’s “absurd” coverage of the disappearance of Flight MH370.
The 80-year-old hit out at his former employer in an interview with the Capital New York website.
King said: “I miss being live, which I did all my life and I miss the big story, though I will tell you, I am glad I am not on CNN now with this missing plane.
“Because that has been turned into the most absurd news story.
“It was a great news story and then it went absurd.”
CNN has covered the story extensively since the Malaysia Airlines plane went missing en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 with 239 people on board.
A recent CNN report said the Malaysian authorities “have nothing to show” from the exhaustive search that has so far covered more than 4.6 million square kilometres of the Indian Ocean.
However, King, who fronted CNN’s Larry King Live for 25 years, said: “The funny thing about it is that in all this time the only thing we know is that it made a left turn.
“We don’t know anything else, so I have learned nothing, and all that coverage has led to nothing.”
The bespectacled newsman added: “While it gave them better ratings, they weren’t doing what I consider great news work, which is letting the audience determine what is news.
“In that same period of time (since MH370 went missing) they had landslides in Washington, they had the ferry boat in South Korea, they had Ukraine, they had the G.M. recall with 13 people killed, and they are leading with the missing plane.”
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