The life of everyone is equal...

The recent aviation accidents involving Malaysia Airlines has attracted worldwide attention. Everyone was angry at the perpetrator of the accident. Some to the extend of writing hatred posts on social medial. Thousands of condolences wishes were posted or broadcasted via social media, newspaper or radio station. The radio stations even have a program specially made for this tragedy.

But.. more people have died in the past years and never once the deceased were given so much attention let alone condolences. I have never seen that many RIP messages in Facebook until the MH accidents happened. Do you know that:

1) 21,000 children die every day around the world?
2) More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died in Qatar since Jan 2012? These workers are
   involved in the building of infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup.


There are many more tragedies or conflicts which sadly caused death of human life. One such example will be the recent Israel attack on Gaza, which has caused the death of over 500. However, if you look at the 2 examples I have brought out, these 2 issues have caused more death than the recent aviation accidents but I hardly hear anyone speaks about it. Is it because of the lack of media coverage? I don't see any RIP messages or radio station talking about it. Everyone loves football and billion of dollars transacted on betting alone. But nobody seem to care how those stadiums were built. Anyone loss his life due to this billion dollars sport entertainment?

Shall we just blame on the media for low coverage on not so important news? News which cannot sell?
Remember, the media only broadcast what sells? What everyone wants to hear? So are we not interested to find out why 21000 children die everyday? Are we not care about the welfare of the migrant workers who die in the name of football? Why the missing MH370 and the down of MH17 caught the attention of so many? Is it because it is something which doesn't happen often and hence we should fell pity and sad for? The death of 21000 children daily is just too common?