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The Disparity Between Millionaires and the Media Attention That They Get

Ethan Zuckerman: We're like watching two movies play out in real time, depending on if you watch the Sun Cable News or if you watch this on social media. He says we have this breathless coverage of these millionaires who were on an extreme high risk tourism adventure and just a few days after the capsizing of a migrant vessel in Greece, they killed 300 people,. which got just a fraction of the coverage.Zuckerman: I think it's also hard not to look at the disparity there between millionaires who are taking this sort of libertarian cruise down to the Titanic and the media attention that that gets. On the other hand, how little media attention it gets when migrants die

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