UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to cnn.com. 
2. Right-click to "Inspect". 
3. In "Console", select "top" window. 
4. Input "window.addEventListener('storage', function() {console.log('fired')})" and press Enter. 
5. Go through Step 1, 2, 3 and 4 in another tab. 
6. In either tab, input "localStorage['a'] = 'b'" and press Enter. 

What is the expected behavior?
"fired" shows up in one of the two tabs. 

What went wrong?
"fired" does not show up anywhere. 

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

1. Other sites like foxnews.com work as expected, that is, "fired" shows up in one of the two tabs. 
2. Also tried Version 53.0.2748.0 canary with all extensions disabled but no luck. 
3. Firefox works as expected, even on cnn.com. 
4. Related bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48159