Bayesian tragedy over reported

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AIBU to think that this tragedy is being vastly over reported simply because it involved very rich people? Why did it require live coverage or the effort to recover bodies on major news channels.

I agree OP. Yes, it's obviously very sad for the families but so many boats go down with migrants onboard off the coast of Sicily and those people are completely irrelevant apparently.

Interesting that the yacht owners co-defendant was also killed last week but i imagine a waterspout is hard to organise.

Everybody has noticed 🙄

Tragic though that is, an overloaded inflatable in the channel is much riskier than a mega yacht anchored in a harbour.

And that’s before taking into account either a truly bizarre coincidence or a conspiracy.

It's no accident....

Eurgh another Leftie with a chip on their shoulder thread opener. Pathetic.

It's not exactly comparable with the funny animal story they used to stick on at the end.People are interested and have compassion for human stories, they're still talking about the Titanic for example.
How old are you that you 'took' your news ?🥱

Who knows their names, ages, their relatives, how much they earned and every detail of their lives? The most coverage they’ll get will say “Three migrants drowned today in the Channel when their dinghy capsized”. That’s it. We don’t get hourly breaking news updates on the BBC for a week. There isn’t countless articles for days about the ins and outs of the situation. People will just say “That’s awful” to themselves and it’ll be forgotten.

I'm actually very right wing. But thank you for your contribution. 😂

Foul play is suspected. That's why.

Only in the minds of fantasists.

It was big news. But it's been the lead story for days. Which is ridiculous.

Makes a change from people obsessing over the sinking of small boats in the channel.

On a more serious note, it is a sad story that has captured our interest. His poor wife and surviving dd.

According to the BBC TV News at 6 just now, if I remember correctly, after the tech entrepreneur and his daughter, the dead are {man’s name) (man’s job) and his wife (her name)(possibly her job, but I don’t think so)} x 2 or 3, and the boat’s chef (his name).

Online the men are still listed first.

I agree with previous posters who mention that this is August, and a slow news week/ month.

I do find it weird how his codefendant got killed on the same day in a different accident. Hmmm.

Desperately over reported.
Agree with you OP.

Er, you ok?🤣

edit: misread!

I thought it was perhaps reported so much because people hoped there could be an air pocket in the boat and maybe, just maybe, someone had survived. A bit like when the submarine looking at the Titanic disappeared, people were hoping it had got lost and would be found and the people saved although all the signs were always there that they had sadly perished. I think that until bodies are found people hope for a miracle and that keeps the story alive,

I agree.

The OP is quite right, I couldn't name one poor dead migrant refugee out of the hundreds that have died (including many tiny babies ) but I can name most of the boat of dead rich people

The poor are unnamed

@AugustDieSheMustTheAutumnWindsBlowChillyAndCold it's a different point you make / problem you spot, not unique to this story though. I'm not a follower of celebrity news but it always strikes me whenever I see stories about Louise Redknapp that she is always, and I mean always, described for explanatory purposes as a mother of two sons and ex-wife of Jamie Redknapp (ie defined principally and always subordinate to her relationship to three men irrespective of what she has done herself, is doing now, or may do in the future). Bit of thread derailer I guess and one for FWR.

Ok, lets have a look.

Someone described as "English Bill Gates" who recently won a 12 years legal battle with Hewlett Packard dies while celebrating with his family and close friends. On a huge yacht that's described as "mega yacht" so obviously not some tiny dinghy, and the yacht went down in a space of a literal minutes. In a freak weather related accident that did not affect any other boats in the area. His wife is dead, and his daughter (I assume), as well as other people who were on the boat - not the crew, who mostly survived, but his rich friends. AND his co-defendant has recently been killed in some freaky jogging accident. AND another person connected with the trial also died (cant remember when or how).

Yep, everyday stuff, nothing to see here.

As a pp said, rich white men have more value than anyone else in this world though

Not all the victims were rich or white or men. For a time the BBC website was leading with an image of the Canadian-Antiguan chef, Recaldo Thomas.

And Mike Lynch, apparently, was one of the most important figures in British tech and as such his death is significant.

Nobody talks about the little girls in Southport anymore, I don't think it's because they don't care.

The BBC website is reporting on the funeral of one of the little girls currently.

People complaining about extended, 24/7 coverage of this or any other news story are presumably watching it round the clock, otherwise how would you know how much coverage it was getting? Why not just turn off?

Do you think there is a difference between reporting a death of, say, Freddie Mercury or, for example, Uncle Ted who lived next door? Both were lovely and adored by friends and family, but which one will get more interest in the press?

This is life, I'm afraid, and you will never be able to change this.