• Sordid ( Sordid@beehaw.org ) 
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    What should the media have done? Ignore it?

    Yeah, why not? They were perfectly fine with ignoring hundreds of migrants drowning after their boat sank near Greece last week. The only reason I found out about that is because I saw a meme bashing the media for ignoring it.

          • TheOtherJake ( TheOtherJake@beehaw.org ) 
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            The public would rather watch a few rich parasitic egos get crushed, than watch hundreds fail at the same struggle as the rest of us just barely treading water.

            People have no perspective of what it means to have a population of over seven billion. The 2023 daily average statistical deaths are 332,648 per day. The news as reported by corporate media is just entertainment. It is such a small and irrelevant slice of what is really happening world wide that it is virtually irrelevant.

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      News articles were published about the boat.

      How ever much we may dislike it. Media is a capitalist business. As such its obvious that 100s of people are dead. Is going to end its coverage quicker then are 5 people dead yet. Its hard to publish extra stuff when the answers are known. Speculation will always be more profitable.

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        Yeah, you saw stories about it in a couple places. The sub has been on the front page of everything for a week. Thanks for supporting my point, I guess.