A fishing boat crowded with migrants traveling from Libya to Italy sank in Greek waters last week. While hundreds are still missing and feared dead, it has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for five people.
There was a show years ago called “Not The Nine O’Clock News” that was broadcast on the BBC. It was a comedy show that was REALLY heavy on satire, both about the government of the day, and British society in general.
One of the sketches was a news report about a disaster (I think it was a plane crash?) and it started “A plane has crashed in the Mediterranean Ocean, and here is a list of the casualties in order of important – three Britons, two Americans, three French, seven Spanish, four Australians…” and well you get the idea.
Does it really surprise you that forty years later not much has changed?
There was a show years ago called “Not The Nine O’Clock News” that was broadcast on the BBC. It was a comedy show that was REALLY heavy on satire, both about the government of the day, and British society in general.
One of the sketches was a news report about a disaster (I think it was a plane crash?) and it started “A plane has crashed in the Mediterranean Ocean, and here is a list of the casualties in order of important – three Britons, two Americans, three French, seven Spanish, four Australians…” and well you get the idea.
Does it really surprise you that forty years later not much has changed?