Should CNN skip politics & report on the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds crashes, Prince's Fentanlyl OD, and the dead soldiers in the flood?

This is an example of capitalism at its finest. CNN is a business unit within Time Warner, so they are a for-profit enterprise. They are simply reporting the stuff that will draw the most viewers and will help them make the most money. The military news probably doesn't appeal to a wide enough audience, so that's why those stories don't get much airtime. The Prince news is a footnote now. They gave his death lots of coverage when the story was fresh.

It would be nice but realistically they have an election to try to influence. The irony is that this is a historical event in both the Navy and Air Force, that on the same day both demonstration teams had a crash, coincidentally it was both the number 6 solo jets for each team.

CNN and the other major networks tend to focus on bad news which is shocking and titillating LTC (Join to see). The news needs to be something which many people would be interested in.
When this nation was more patrioticly-focused stories about the Blue Angel and Thunderbird aircraft accidents would have gotten more airplay.