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Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Yeah, but what was their net worth? ^/s^
Well I mean the coverage on the submarines isn't really because of their net worth (not denying that it isn't a contributing factor), but submarines sinking isn't really that common, as another user have said in their comment. Remember MH370? A majority of the passengers weren't wealthy, but it still got a lot of media coverage.
The Kursk disaster also garnered world wide attention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
But even the contribution of their net worth to the coverage is only in the sense that people think it's funny that something bad is happening to an arrogant billionaire. I don't think the intent of OP was to say that people should feel schadenfreude over the migrant situation.