Are you asking for a live stream of the ship sinking ?
“Economic migrants on their way to illegally invade Italy capsized and everyone died :(”
Oh yeah, my heart bleeds for them. And the article is rife with “Think of the children!” pearl-clutching. It’s weird but maybe you should work on your own country instead of looking for handouts and not taking children on what is probably a dangerous journey.
The boat was a tragic disaster, the sub was an interesting mystery.
no fucking shit the second gets more attention.
This is such a terrible moralizing take …
It didn’t get the same attention because it had already happened, it was terrible, and nobody said otherwise, but there was no mystery or suspense about those peoples’ fates. There was no ongoing story.
The Titan story is in the same vein as when workers get trapped in a mine for weeks, or like those children in a cave in Thailand. They weren’t billionaires, yet the whole world still rallied behind them.
Also, to the columnist lady: you work for The fucking Guardian, if you felt that the migrant shipwreck story deserved more attention, why didn’t you write about it then? I guess selling Western guilt gets more clicks huh?
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
I can count on one hand the number of billionaires who have died on an experimental submersible touring the wreck of the Titanic.
Nobody looked at the Titan and thought: ahh well, they signed a waiver saying they accepted death was a possibility, there’s no point saving them.
Yeah, this author has obviously never been on the Internet before.
