The titan submersible made for good entertainment while the migrant ship did not. This isn't a grand moral failing, it's just business.

Put this story back on the shelf and it can be recycled a hundred times this year.

One death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/?am...

For most of the news cycle, it was missing, not dead. That made it an event.