Truck runs over 84 French people

[Anomalocaris]

The problem is that the mainstream, corporate media over-hypes certain things and ignores that worthy of more concern.  It is why if I ever look at the news, it is an alternative source.

The truth is while all human lives are valuable in some abstract sense, all lives are not equally value in any actionable, practical sense.

Loss of human life in societies we perceive to be similar to our own and with which we have deeper and more extensive levels of interaction do tend suggest the factors causing those losses are more likely to also affect us.  Therefore it behooves us to pay more attention to it so as to slightly better prepare us to avoid it.  That's why loss of life in France draws our attention, and that is why it is on the front page.

The muslim on Muslim violence in the Muslim world does not recall to our minds a similar depth of sectarian division in our world.  Therefore Muslim on Muslim violence does not alarm us by making us feel we too can easily become victims on similar sectarian violence.  Similarly drone attacks on the Muslim does not make us fear that we too have become so backward and out of loop that we live at the mercy of an overwhelmingly more advance culture. This is why Muslim deaths in the Islamic world do not strike a similar chord, and do not draw our attention or merit front page, unless it impacts our political landscape.

To damn the fact that news report focus less on the loss of lives in societies perceived to be quite alien to us is to fail to understand why anything ought to be newsworthy to the general public at all.