Titanic, on a river?

[tom_gladius]

It amazes me sometimes what tragedies are remembered and which ones aren’t. In my lifetime most people can tell you where they were the moment that they heard Princess Diana died, yet I would bet that half of those people (if not more) couldn’t tell you where they were the moment they heard that Mother Theresa had died. Why is it that people

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[xerarhus]

Plain and simple! I like your work!

[tom_gladius]

Thank you.

[suspiria]

I had never heard that story before. Thank you.

[tom_gladius]

Anytime.

[maximumfish]

The problem is that journalism has (/had - technology is wonderful) a near monopolistic hold on information from outside a person's sphere of first-hand experience and interaction. And with this there is something like the 'availability heuristic'; if i've heard of something, it must be significant and in direct proportion to how often I've heard of it, or how how easily i can bring it to mind. And of course inverse: if i haven't heard of something, it must not be significant