[evgen]

And the Chilean miners trapped for a couple of months back in 2010? The fact that all I need to do to remind you of the event is mention 'Chilean miners' should be sufficient evidence to prove an exception to your proposed rule.

[silisili]

I'll half concede, fair point.

It was a lot of people (more than 30), and IMO wasn't covered as heavily as say, the Thai cave or this may be.

There is definitely a disaster angle news latch onto, but it's pretty rare for a group of adults this small. There are small plane crashes with more fatalities multiple times a year...

And it can't be the 'missing people' angle, there are like 400k kids every year reported missing with less than milk carton coverage...

[numpad0]

The urgency tickles our savior complex. The situation makes us feel that we might be able to save those souls if only we could figure out the correct bash one-liner to solve it, and that grabs our collective attention.

[Jcowell]

this seems so weird to me since the majority of the planet isn’t doing anything to save these people.

[ycombobreaker]

I agree with your points. But just imagine the news cycle if the Chilean miners _were_ children!