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Obama calls out ‘obscene inequality’ in news coverage of OceanGate sub tragedy and sinking of migrant ship (msn.com)
Former President
Barack Obama called out what he perceived as a double standard in media coverage of the tragedy of the OceanGate Titan submersible versus the migrant boat that sank off the coast of Greece last week.In an interview with CNN host Christiane Amanpour in Athens, Greece Thursday night, the 44th president railed against "inequality" in our "democracy" and claimed the fact that news of the missing OceanGate sub dominated the news cycle, while the sinking of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea did not, is an example of this "inequality."Obama noted that "democracy is not going to be healthy" due to this type of "obscene inequality."
The other tragedy Obama mentioned was the capsizing of the migrant boat off the coast of Greece last week that most likely resulted in hundreds of deaths. The boat carrying around 750 migrants was mid-route from Libya to Italy when the ship sank, with only around one hundred passengers being rescued.
Obama condemned the disparate amount of media coverage between the two events to Amanpour.
He added, "But the fact that that’s got so much more attention than 700 people who sank. That’s an untenable situation."