• The_Terrible_Humbaba@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    In my country, they started the newscast 2h earlier than usual just to say “Debris were found; may be unrelated”. I think they initially went live earlier because the conference was meant to happen earlier and they couldn’t wait to show it; it had to be live. When it got postponed, they spent 2h just talking about it with commentators and different specialists; all just theorizing what could have happened, and whether there might still be a chance for rescue or not, and repeating that there would be a conference “so stay tuned!”.

    But refugees you barely hear about.

    I get this story has some more “thrill” and novelty to it, being a submarine near the titanic and all, but this really is ridiculous.

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      1 year ago

      The more prosaic explanation – bordering on “banality of evil,” but still – is that a story about a rickety overloaded fishing boat full of desperate war refugees sinking in the Mediterranean has become a fairly common occurrence in the years since the Arab Spring turned into a decade of civil wars, but whiz-bang private subs going missing while diving on the most famous shipwreck of all time is unusual. Horses vs. zebras and all that.

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        Yup. Also why do people want more media attention on this. It’s not going to stop the human traffickers from overloading their boats. It’s not that no one did anything. The coast guards and navies of multiple countries acted as soon as they became aware the boat sank and as a result saved a ton of people. Would people really be happier if we had end to end coverage of a disaster that had no mystery to it just an all too common occurrence of lives being lost fleeing Africa and the Middle East dangerously.