Coverage subject to change if an airplane goes missing or Hillary takes the Scooby van on a road trip. Update to this previous story here and here.
Via Baltimore Sun
When it comes to television, CNN has been in a league by itself in covering the Freddie Gray story.
From boots on the ground in Baltimore covering protests and press conferences Monday, to a non-stop lineup straight through prime time Tuesday night of interview shows trying to provide context, CNN is showing the competition what committed, competent, TV news coverage looks like.
Top-rated Fox News? Forget about it on this story. As of dinnertime Tuesday, I had yet to even see the citizen videos of Gray’s arrest there. And the videos – with their sounds of Gray’s anguished screams and images of his legs looking as if they could not function — are the driving force behind this story.
Miguel Marquez, Suzanne Malveaux and the video and sound crews in Baltimore have given viewers a strong feel for events on the streets of Baltimore – particularly Tuesday at dusk as crowds gathered to protest and officials wondered what would happen when night fell. Marquez especially seemed to be in the middle of everything Tuesday night.
Most impressive were the news shows throughout the day and night, which were booked solid with strong analysts. And the talking-head analysts were not all the usual suspects.[…]
The world of cable TV is rank with experts who have undisclosed relationships with some of the very people they are commenting on or evaluating for millions of viewers. Good for CNN in not allowing that to happen in even a minor way on a story as important as this.
Even Don Lemon, who has come under considerable critical fire for some of his words and actions as a show host, came through Tuesday night.