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And good news are worth spreading while to tragedies one pays respect. Anyway, it's a shame that level of disparity in assigned resources.

As long as the Capitalist market controls the vast majority of the news then this will ALWAYS be the case. Capitalism is by default self serving. So it's in their best interest to get the world concerned about some billionaires stuck in a tin can submarine somewhere in the ocean, over hundreds of refugees drowning.

Also worth noting that there's no further story to the migrant ship. It sunk and people died. There is no ongoing search.

Right? I watched one youtube video about this sub, and now I'm getting flooded by recommendations about the same story. Most of them are NBC clips.

Yeah it seems pretty ridiculous for a new network that's been pushing coverage of the Titan to complain about this. Why not just cover the other story, then?

I doubt the person who wrote this article gets that much say in which stories NBC publishes

Understandable that a race against the clock (that I think they've most definitely lost) makes for more novel news, so I'm not surprised that it got more coverage. It's also very fair to be angry that five billionaires on a pleasure trip are visibly more important than 400+ poor. "llegal" people are still people and they suffered and died the same in an effort to live safely, which literally everyone wants.

There's nothing in this article or others I found that suggests it was deliberate, either. It seems to have been an accidental capsize.

Please just focus on the capsized boat if you want people to focus about the capsized boat.

The story is about how news media focus on certain topics over others. It's using the Titan submersible and the Libyan disaster as examples for it.

The money, time and effort to save the Titan submersible has been huge, whereas the same effort has ignored this incident.

People will pay more attention to this if it’s its own story. “What about” tends to get poor coverage and media attention.

There have been articles about this, they don't get any traction nor do they get sympathy because of the people on board the boat.

Yeah i actually think the addition to the titanic exhibition is worth the coverage, they haven't gotten new stuff for like a hundert years now!

My coworkers are talking about the submersible and not about the boat.

BUT

They are talking about the submersible in a fun way, they are laughing at a bunch of people dying because they are rich. All of them know that the Mediterranean Sea is full of corpses, one more boat or not.

Capitalism want to sell news for clicks, and african people dying in the sea isn't something new sadly.

There's also the massive scandal over the fact that the submarine was not safe at all and should never have been used for manned missions, making it something of a leopards at my face moment. This has made it emminently memeable, so people are talking about it even more.

A boat sinking on its way to Libya is definitely more tragic, but also not nearly as unusual or attention grabbing. No sane person is about to make memes about a few hundred dead migrants.

Rich people gonna rich.

For what we have spent on the search for 5 people we could have re-homed all 500 refugees on the ship off of Greece.

I’m just waiting for someone to point out that if we were to save and rehome the refugees, it will just encourage others to take unnecessary risks. Because I’m going to point to the multi-country, $10M/day search effort and ask whether or not Billionaires expect to get bailed out if they take unnecessary risks.

I understand.

Migrants drowning isn't entertainment unless you're a sociopath.

Millionaires and Billionaires slowly suffocating in a little tube at the bottom of the ocean because they wanted to spend their money on something pointlessly dangerous just for bragging rights?

Make some popcorn.

News as news doesn't sell advertising dollars. If all you want is information about what's happening in the world, we used to get that in 1 or 2 hours a night. Back then they'd only need to go back to the story if there was new information.

Now there are organizations dedicated to spewing "news" 24x7. That's not news, that's entertainment. Once it becomes entertainment, it's not about the information, it's just about keeping the focus on what keeps eyeballs glued to the screen. Right now, that's dying rich people.

Hell, I doubt there is ever a time when the majority of people on earth don't want to watch rich people suffer and die.

There is also a factor of rich people's loved ones having the same assess to news broadcast platforms and can raise awareness faster.

You and me are going to drown out at sea and we might get a mention from our loved ones after the fact.

These guys though, they know the friend of the sister that works at the BBC, they know the mother of the tik-tok enthusiast who has like 1.3 million followers. It's essentially a giant mega phone they get to blast from contacts.

There is also the reward factor, as immigrants rescued at sea have nothing to give, in fact some people have to explain to their superiors why they wasted resources in such a case.

But you save 3 billionaires and 2 multimillionaires from a metal coffin, and you bet there is a reward for that. Not only from a cut of the inevitable book sales/movies that would take place, from being seen as the heros, and if these five were super grateful, I imagine a $$$,$$$,$$$ reward too. Even if it is just their bodies found for their loved ones.

Because that's more interesting 🤔?

I think it's fine for this particular journalist to bring attention to it, even if it reveals the outlet's ongoing bias.

Lately it seems like we're only hearing about the 1%

From where I'm sitting, it looks like these mass drownings are to the EU what mass shootings are here in the US: an issue that the people and politicians pretend to give a crap about, and then do absolutely nothing about, so it keeps happening over and over again.

While I generally agree, I think people are getting too hung up on the fact that the missing crew are all wealthy - that's not really the point.

It's a fascinating story because we are dealing with a potential (albeit at this stage incredibly unlikely) deep-sea rescue of the sort that has never been attempted before, at depths that only a handful of craft are capable of even reaching, and we know that time is quickly running out.

Then you have the angle that the company that runs the expeditions is alleged to have ignored early safety warnings about the vessel's ability to reach the extreme depths as advertized, combined with the CEO's application of the "move fast and break things" technocratic mentality to deep sea exploration.

Even if the occupants of the submersible were regular joes, or even (at the risk of sounding crass) refugees, it would still be a attention-grabbing news item.

Coming from reddit you really had me in the first half, I felt my blood pressure rising dramatically until the last sentence.

It's not just people missing. It's the efforts of the various organisations around the world that have put huge amounts of effort into finding them when they could've saved a lot more (hell 1 more is a lot more) had they focused on larger disasters.

But because the victims are Arabs and refugees, nobody cares.

5 billionaires go missing. 5 nation's coast guards jump at the chance to save them. How many of the 500 would be saved if they had not gone looking for dead men? Could it be said that 505 people are dead because some rich asshole wanted to play James Cameron?