Whose Life Matters?

Last week five billionaires died when their carnival ride -- oops, I mean exploratory submarine -- imploded underwater, keeping them from seeing the rusted hulk of a luxury liner that sank over 100 years ago, just for giggles. 

The media went nuts, devoting all their TV coverage -- daytime and prime time -- to this disaster for days, as if it had meaning to the world and as if the dead were heroes to be lauded for their bravery. Leading newspapers also devoted many column inches and most front pages to the story.

Yet there was just a tiny, two-paragraph mention -- not an article at all --  in today's Wall Street Journal about 350 Pakistani migrants who perished when their overcrowded fishing boat sank off the coast of Greece last week.

Discuss.