Did CNN go overboard on its cruise ship coverage?

- Huffington Post noted that while Fox and MSNBC covered other issues during the late morning and early afternoon, CNN was laser focused on the ship with a helicopter to provide immediate coverage.

- I'd show you the Jon Stewart clip mocking CNN but this blog software doesn't allow me to do so. You can see it here.

In it, Stewart showed a clip of a young girl on the ship waving to her mother via the TV cameras.

"You're not heroes, guys," Stewart said, to CNN. "It's not a hostage situation or a baby in a well. You reconnected them? They weren't supposed to see each other. They were on a cruise for a few days."

-  MSNBC's morning host Joe Scarborough noted: "Because of the problems with this cruise line, all of the problems in the world stopped. The killing in Syria — it came to an end. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats hugged. The whole idea of a historic hold on the Secretary of Defense — they just said, 'Let's just put this aside because of the big cruise ship debacle.'"

- Mediate did a count: On Thursday and Friday morning, CNN mentioned the Carnival non-disaster 168 times, compared with 62 mentions by Fox News, and only 25 by MSNBC.

- The New York Times said the story was right up Zucker's alley:

CNN sent out a release about its coverage yesterday morning.