Via: Tuned In
Thursday, the stinky, disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph was crawling back into port in Alabama, its power and sewage systems knocked out by a fire on board. And CNN made no secret that it was going to be on this story like flies on–um, the Carnival cruise ship Triumph. Mid-morning, the network sent out a press release detailing its coverage plans: The squalid, smelly, steamy cruise ship, which has been without power for days with 4,000 people aboard, is expected to finally limp into port later today. CNN’s Erin Burnett will anchor Erin Burnett OutFront from Mobile, Alabama, where the ship will dock. Sandra Endo covers the ship’s arrival by helicopter; Victor Blackwell monitors by boat; and David Mattingly and Martin Savidge report from the dock in Mobile. CNN.com/live and the CNN apps will live stream the docking. CNN International will simulcast the arrival later tonight. On Saturday at 7:30pmET and 10:30pmET, CNN will broadcast ”Cruise from Hell: Stranded at Sea,” a 30 minute special reported by Martin Savidge. CNN (usual disclosure, TIME’s sister company in Time Warner) was good as its word. Thursday afternoon, while competitors MSNBC and Fox were cycling through the other news of the day (they did join coverage when the ship make port at night), newshounds began to notice that CNN was virtually all Poop Cruise, all the time. The details were certainly, shall we say, ripe. There was live video from helicopter, cell phone interviews with passengers, virtual reunions by phone between passengers and their loved ones on shore, running commentary on the legal and business aspects of the disaster for Carnival. And then there were the pictures. Oh God, the pictures. Brooke Baldwin cut in mid-interview at one point to announce, “We’re finally getting some of the first photographs from inside this cruise”—and the network popped a snapshot of a red bag reportedly containing human waste. From there, the, er, floodgates opened. Baldwin interviewed a passenger who sent video of sewage dripping down the ship’s walls. (“Let me know when we roll. Let’s roll the sewage video.”) The
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Posted: February 15th, 2013
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