CNN Coverage of King Day

For me, one of the neat facets of the King holiday every year, is the attention it receives from the media. Each year, I usually end up learning something new about Dr. King and the message he died fighting for.

Maybe it was just me, but this year, I didn't see very much coverage of the holiday, at least on the TV end of things. 

However, CNN did have good coverage of the day including a great piece by one of their reporters Soledad O'Brien that aired a few times. The piece was just done well from every aspect, the writing, the shooting, everything.I tried to find a YouTube video for that but was unsuccessful. I would check to see if it is coming on again as it was very, very good.

In addition, many of their regular programming that day were themed around the holiday.

Here is a video made possible by a really cool feature CNN has called the i-Report which regular watchers to upload their videos of important events to the CNN website which CNN then airs for a unique point of view. 

i-Report on Parade

And how can we forget about, the Democratic debate that aired on CNN that night? Before Obama and Clinton went for each other's throats that night, they and Edwards spoke that day about Dr. King. Here is footage from the CNN site.

Democrats on King

Off the television, CNN put together a very cool section of their website in honor of Dr. King. It is called the Road to Equality.

There you can find many stories on the holiday as well as iReport videos from viewers.

There is also another portion of the site dedicated to the King papers here.

All in all I have to say that CNN takes the award in covering the holiday. Not only with the stories they ran on TV, but their website holds some very good and very well organized information for anyone wishing to learn more about Dr. King.