informed the audience earlier in the news cycle and led to less speculation
Interesting. Does reducing audience (public) speculation actually matter? What if the person that captured the video immediately sent it to the NTSB and FAA so as not to impede the investigation, but sold it to the media?
CNN had the video endlessly looping for hours today, so my assumption would be it has serious economic value.
My personal opinion is that any objective evidence does matter, although mostly in the context of the investigation like you mentioned. I hadn't thought of that particular choice.
In any case, it's reasonable to predict that CNN has better footage already that they've chosen not to release yet.
Interesting. Does reducing audience (public) speculation actually matter? What if the person that captured the video immediately sent it to the NTSB and FAA so as not to impede the investigation, but sold it to the media?
CNN had the video endlessly looping for hours today, so my assumption would be it has serious economic value.