The President during his 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner speech made fun of CNN over their extensive coverage on the missing plane.
"I am happy to be here even though I am a little jetlagged from my trip to Malaysia ... the lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days,” Obama said at the event.
Ex-CNN Larry King also slammed the news agency by saying the coverage has become ‘absurd’.
In an interview with the Capital New York website, the bespectacled former TV host said: "I miss being live, which I did all my life and I miss the big story, though I will tell you, I am glad I am not on CNN now with this missing plane.
"Because that has been turned into the most absurd news story.
