Unequal Coverage: Media Prioritizes Titanic Sub Over Migrants Lost at Sea

The search for five passengers aboard a submersible to view the wreck of the Titanic has received far more media attention than the estimated 700 migrants who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece last week. The passengers on the overcrowded fishing vessel were seeking refuge from war, poverty, and other life-threatening crises. The Greek government is facing accusations that it could have saved the migrants but opted not to. The tragedy was completely avoidable, and Europe needs to provide safe and legal routes for refugees and migrants. The only way to stop these tragedies is to have European solidarity in place, a movement that organizes a European search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean.