People pay more attention to airplane accidents right after a large accident event.. Google plane accidents and you will see that they happen all the time, they just don't get the world wide news coverage.
Aircraft accidents are common; commercial airline accidents, especially those apparently happening in mid-air are very rare. Even thirty year old trijets operated in Africa crash infrequently enough to warrant global news coverage, albeit not news coverage that many people pay much attention to or that the BBC sees fit to create a live update page for.
What's actually a far bigger coincidence is that there were no fatal 777 crashes in the first 20 years of a >1200 aircraft production run until this year, when two aircraft belonging to the same airline were both total losses in apparently unrelated cases of apparent foul play. Whilst I can't conceive any conspiracy theory linking the two that would be credible even by the low standards of the average conspiracy theory, that's a far bigger statistical anomaly.
Oh! Lemmie try! Um, Cyber attacks! Someone found vuln in the avionics software used by that airline and has been fucking with the planes. Um, and the culprit is... A colalition of anonymous disenfranchised russian/ukranian teenage hackers who have been trained by the illuminati.
News is a fashion industry. One big "dog mauls child" story will be followed by other "dog mauls child" stories that would otherwise not have been reported. The difference is that they are "news" now when they weren't news before....
Yep, summer 2001 was the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" because of a couple of high-profile incidences. The news media played it up as some sort of epidemic although there was no significant difference in the numbers. This went on until September when a bigger story came long.
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People pay more attention to airplane accidents right after a large accident event.. Google plane accidents and you will see that they happen all the time, they just don't get the world wide news coverage.
Aircraft accidents are common; commercial airline accidents, especially those apparently happening in mid-air are very rare. Even thirty year old trijets operated in Africa crash infrequently enough to warrant global news coverage, albeit not news coverage that many people pay much attention to or that the BBC sees fit to create a live update page for.
What's actually a far bigger coincidence is that there were no fatal 777 crashes in the first 20 years of a >1200 aircraft production run until this year, when two aircraft belonging to the same airline were both total losses in apparently unrelated cases of apparent foul play. Whilst I can't conceive any conspiracy theory linking the two that would be credible even by the low standards of the average conspiracy theory, that's a far bigger statistical anomaly.
Oh! Lemmie try! Um, Cyber attacks! Someone found vuln in the avionics software used by that airline and has been fucking with the planes. Um, and the culprit is... A colalition of anonymous disenfranchised russian/ukranian teenage hackers who have been trained by the illuminati.
Yea, I think people will buy that.
News is a fashion industry. One big "dog mauls child" story will be followed by other "dog mauls child" stories that would otherwise not have been reported. The difference is that they are "news" now when they weren't news before....
Yep, summer 2001 was the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" because of a couple of high-profile incidences. The news media played it up as some sort of epidemic although there was no significant difference in the numbers. This went on until September when a bigger story came long.
There's no news like bad news.
It sells better. [1]
[1]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201012/why...