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?
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?