A ferry carrying 700 people capsized near the philippines, why isn't this news as

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widespread as the Titanic? The final death toll when the Titanic sunk was 1,012. There are at least 700 now know to have perished in this recent ferry sinking and its barely a blip on the news. Why is that? If this were an American Ferry it would probably overshadow the 100s of thousands of Iowans and Midwestern folk affected by the recent flooding and levee breaks.
 
because the titanic was labeled "the unsinkable ship" and for it's time was a marvel of engineering and it went down on it's first run. Also since the titanic we've had 2 world wars, countless mass loss of lives. people are alot more used to see large amounts of causulaties then they were then
 
The right-wing media is busy supplying Americans with their circuses - Paris Hilton and Obama's terrorist fist bump to name a couple BIG STORIES.

They have no time for real news and especially if it's about people who's skin is slightly darker.
 
Why is that? Because the Philippine ferry disaster wasn't the same as the Titanic for many reasons. The ferry was already in use and had been running for years. It wasn't on a much-heralded maiden voyage. And ferry disasters in the philippines are not unusual. Sorry, but that's a fact. The Titanic was reputed to be 'unsinkable' and much ballyhooed. Everyone knows the ferry boats can and do sink. So there isn't the element of surprise in sinking a Philippine ferry boat - or an Indonesian ferry boat, or a ferry boat in India etc. News is based on the premise that something unusual, unexpected or unexplicable, is more interesting than something that has happened previously.
That doesn't mean the friends and families of the 700 people on that capsized ferry aren't just as saddened and stricken as the friends and families of the Titanic victims were, but it doesn't have the same shock value. And that's why it gets relegated to the back pages of the newspapers or the 'world roundup' section of the local newscast.
 
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