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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry they are lost, but the extent and scope of the media coverage on this is ridiculous. These are five rich people who willingly chose to go on a dangerous morbid site seeing exercise. It is getting significant media attention only because it has all the “right” elements to appeal to stupid people who consume news: Titanic, submarine, missing rich people, limited oxygen.

Meanwhile, a migrant boat capsized off Greece last week (possibly caused by the Greek Coast Guard itself) with up to 700 deaths, and there is shockingly little coverage of it, only because it has all the “wrong” elements: poor migrants, rickety boat, official involvement in the disaster.

Ironically, the migrant boat was carrying a lot of poor Pakistanis, and the Titanic sub apparently has two rich Pakistani tourists aboard. So tell me as a society what we care about: money![/quote]

This post is really just looking for something to be upset about.  Unusual events always get more news coverage than more commonplace ones.  In some ways, that's the definition of newsworthy.  A boat full of migrants capsizing with hundreds of deaths is tragic, but sadly not that uncommon.  Whereas people potentially being crushed to death or suffocating at the site of the Titanic is not exactly standard fare.  [/quote]

So you’re trying to say we’re just like the Romans: mass shooting death is boring and commonplace, but being mauled to death in the Colosseum, now that’s a story!![/quote]

Humans are drawn to the interesting and unusual, yes; but fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, mass shootings are not boring and not commonplace.  Nor is anything to do with the Titanic, the unsinkable ship.  [/quote]

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