Media coverage of natural disasters

Why an earthquake with hundreds of victims cause more media coverage than thousands of deaths from AIDS or malaria?
The silent deaths, those you do not see on television are as if they never existed.

The Nazi leaders executed orders of extermination in a cold way, without feeling any human suffering around. Some never saw the Jews dying despite having given orders.
Similar is the launch of an atomic bomb. An act done at a high distance watching from far away to the destructionso. If you don't see human suffering it is more comfortable.

When it happens a natural disaster, seen as an abnormal phenomenon, in which die at once in the same place a significant number of people cause so much impact in the media. The phenomenon of AIDS or malaria, which causes larger number of victims is accepted by the society as a natural phenomenon, not troublesome. Deaths from AIDS or malaria deaths are silent, do not display in the media but are more deadly.

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