Netizens question 'asymmetric' Western media coverage of Mediterranean refugee boat disaster and Titan rescue mission in Atlantic while highlighting disparity in emergency response in both incidents
Netizens are comparing the two situations with frustration, shedding light on the lack of rush to rescue hundreds of refugees. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Netizens on Twitter have juxtaposed a viral image of a fishing trawler carrying more than 700 refugees that sank off Greece last week with a picture of a missing Titan submersible, highlighting"biased" media coverage and disparity in emergency response in both cases. A massive search and rescue effort is under way for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic with a nonstop media coverage of the event.
Some Twitter users say they are frustrated to see a missing tourist submersible carrying five passengers, including two billionaires, being searched in North Atlantic by a multinational response — which includes US and Canadian military planes, coast guard ships, and teleguided robots, while the same emergency response remained missing when hundreds of refugees escaping wars and famine drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.
"I really hope the 5 men who tried to view the Titanic wreck are saved. I also wonder what became of the 500 people seeking asylum still missing from the boat that was allowed to sink off Greece [sic]," Alan Lester, a professor at the University of Sussex and La Trobe University, wrote on Twitter.I really hope the 5 men who tried to view the Titanic wreck are saved.
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