Weeks of false leads and official briefings with little fresh news have fed frustration among passengers' families — particularly in China, the flight's destination — and the information vacuum has fueled speculation, rumors and conspiracy theories about the fate of the Boeing 777.
Just like the Malaysian airliner, flight MH370, it creates a vacuum for more crazy speculation.
The resulting data vacuum was filled by speculation scarcely worthy of the name of theory, which seemed to change with every new discovery.
Rosenthal said that the Ferguson police department's lack of communication after Brown's death and resulting "information vacuum" was filled by "speculation, rumor, and outright falsehoods" in the "Twitterverse".
Eliot Borenstein, a professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, argued in a recent piece that the roots of this tendency lie in the Soviet era, when truth was so rare amid the propaganda that it "not only facilitated skepticism about official pronouncements, but also left a knowledge vacuum easily filled by speculation and rumor".
With little official information available on the president's health, speculation filled the vacuum.
"If Noda had lost, it could have led to speculation of a vacuum in Japan's currency market intervention, but Noda is likely to keep trying to tame the yen's appreciation".
So in the absence of any statewide race to capture the public's attention this election season, the vacuum has been filled with speculation about to whom the South Jersey Democrats — who have a significant financial advantage — would be loyal.
"The vacuum created encourages fear and speculation that could hinder a proportionate response or appropriate action," said NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby.
If anything, it was an amalgamation of sensationalist news stories, rumors, health statistics, judgements, and speculations forming from a vacuum of information and lack of formal gender education.
