This Titan / Titanic thing that’s been all over the news. For a start, there was the media’s obsession with bringing us up-to-the-minute information. Because people were in a life-threatening (what we now know as a life-ending) circumstance.
It all seems very macabre to me, not particularly that it happened, but this desire to put spotlights onto it. But it is what it is.
But what you probably didn’t hear was the news about a migrant raft going down on the route from north Africa to the Canaries. Around thirty deaths, so if you judge things in human terms, several times bigger than what happened over the Titanic.
But the media doesn’t think so. As far as I could make out, the key difference in those stories was that name. Don’t you think it’s strange, the draw the Titanic still has over us after more than a century?
Mister Bump 
I agree. The news has become ‘entertainment’ and not very good entertainment at that, bells and lights and whistles and ominous music. The network TV news shows are a half hour long, without commercials it is about 20 minutes. They will spend five of those minutes talking about Taylor Swift’s outrage at a concert, but nothing about the real news of the world and its pressing problems.
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I do agree!
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And to make matters even more macabre, disturbing, revolting (you fill in the blank), we are now hearing the disturbing story that the authorities knew the status of the Titan and it’s occupants five days ago but kept their findings under wraps to drag out the coverage and draw attention away from the highly questionable Hunter Biden goings-on. This is nothing new but it is still deplorable. How morally bankrupt can people be? To what despicable levels will people stoop?
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I hadn’t heard that but I’m baffled how “the authorities” could have known. For a start, there are no authorities in international waters.
The only thing I can think of is maybe sonar buoys detected an explosion, but sonar buoys that far out??? And that deep?
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(It seems your blog doesn’t allow links)
Check the video by James Cameron at The Daily Mail for more info on what Nancy says and hopefully answers to your questions.
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It thought you were spam!
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Perhaps authorities isn’t the right word; I was referring to the Coast Guard and Navy personnel who have been conducting the daily press conferences. What I wrote earlier was reported this morning on the news.
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I am sadly aware of all the deaths of poor migrants that occur daily in our Mediterranean waters, but those are not news: they were simply fleeing hunger, war, poverty , they were not not bored thrill-seeking VIPs🖤
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I’m sure that’s spot on.
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💙💙💙
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Its just, sad. Media is beyond repair 😴
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It’s almost showing things for titilation.
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Also those died in that sun were ultra rich people, while the refugees/ migrants were poor people.
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Absolutely. One matters m ore than the other. In the media’s eyes at least.
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Unfortunately that’s the way people think.
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or the way the media thinks
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Yes indeed
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The deaths of five billionaires on a fanciful mission in a small submersible gets airplay. The deaths of 30 migrants in a small boat does not.
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true
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Someone in the media noticed.
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spot on
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Or the hundreds, according to the UN, who drowned whilst sailing from Libya to Greece last week. And it was the US Navy who picked up unusual compression sounds on their equipment a few hours after the sub was launched.
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The key difference to me was the money. Rich vs poor. Who’s more newsworthy?
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You’re right, of course.
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Sad, isn’t it?
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Obviously the number of deaths don’t matter to the media, it’s the titillation they want.
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More advertising revenue.
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One of the deaths was a teenage son who went to please his father
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It shows the level of media scrutiny, where nobody cares much about the refugees.
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Well I do remember in 2015 when migrants were flooding into Germany and Hungary and the Baltic states from Libya and Syria and the coverage was pretty huge. I think people become tone deaf to tragedies like this. That’s the real crying shame
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We get a lot here but it’s all small boats crossing the channel. Hostile politicians are automatically opposed and say “France is safe”. But of course, the French don’t speak Engliosh and many of these refugees have a small smattering, so head for the place that does. The newsworthy story here is the massive backlog in the processing.
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