After two months of breathless speculation on the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, CNN offered some polling data that might show just how much its hyped coverage resonated with the public.
The poll released Wednesday found that 51 percent of Americans believe the plane is “in the Indian Ocean in the general area where the search is now taking place,” while 46 percent believe it is “located somewhere else far from the area where the search is taking place.”
CNN has gotten a bit carried away with the “somewhere else.” Host Don Lemon hyped pretty much every conspiracy theory associated with Flight 370, and even suggested that the jet’s disappearance was a “supernatural” event.
“People are saying to me, why aren’t you talking about the possibility — and I’m just putting it out there — that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding?” Lemon posited on-air in March.
CNN’s pollsters put it out there, too. According to the survey, nine percent of Americans believe it was likely that “[s]pace aliens, time travelers or beings from another dimension” played a part in the plane’s disappearance.
The pollsters also asked respondents for their opinion on the fate of the plane’s passengers. Almost 80 percent, according to the survey, believe there are no survivors.
The poll was conducted May 2-4 using live phone interviews with 1,008 American adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
“9% “very” and “somewhat” likely - Space Aliens, time travelers, or beings from another dimension.”
((sigh. switches to Fox News))
Hemmer: “This just in: FoxNews has conducted a poll that concludes that 183% of Americans believe the Obama orchestrated the disappearance to distract from BENGHAAAZIIII!!!”
((reaches for drink))
I agree with my Uncle Skeeter who thinks the plane was hijacked by one or more space aliens, who than flew the plane to their home planet. He figured if a plane can fly in the air, ain’t no reason it can’t fly in outer space.
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I’ve been playing a little game for weeks and weeks…I’ll randomly flick to CNN to see
what’s on their air. Mostly when I flick I land on a commercial but every time I’ve hit programming CNN is doing Flt. #370 stuff. Normally, I say this behavior was a joke but CNN was a laughingstock long before Flt. #370.
I have to be honest, if someone called me up and gave me those options of what happened, I totally would have picked space aliens. The idea is so ridiculous that the fact that it is in the poll it self makes the poll untrustworthy. I would like to see the cross tabs of what people who voted for the aliens picked in other votes. I wouldn’t be particularly surprised to find that the answers are not congruent. I can see 9% messing with CNN on that one.