[lalp1]

Another good example that "data" is not always meaningful. The graphs help the idea "media are talking too much about terrorism".

All deaths are not equal. Most of old people die naturally from an heart failure or cancer, that the natural process of death. Homicides and accidents are not natural but common. Terrorism is an exception, that's why it so much covered.

100 old people dying from cancer do not worth 1 minute of press coverage, a family killed by a truck in a christmas market a bit more.

[ArchTypical]

It's not even so much about the rarity of events, but the violation of Informed Consent. The fundamental assumption in modern society is that you know there are dangers and their relative frequency, so that you may make decisions based on that for you to reach a mental equilibrium of risk vs reward. Someone/something acting psuedo-randomly to violate that equilibrium to an extreme (where there are brutally less choices available due to paralysis or fatal event for an individual or group) is what people react to. They want to incorporate these semi-random events into their daily equilibrium in the form of perceived patterns. This eventually leads to more extreme views (some form of theoretical pattern that fits), in lieu of data.