A few million years ago when a few asteroids strayed out of their orbits and blundered unto earth in swirls of dust and streaks of fire, they brought in their wake, amongst other things, death and destruction for the dinosaur. It was history's immense loss that CNN wasn't there to cover the cataclysmic upheavals LIVE. The TRP they would have squeezed from that singular piece of logistics would have far exceeded the deluge of viewership they muscled during their 1990 light show in the Gulf.