Billionaires in a submersible versus 500 dead in the Mediterranean-guess which one media covers – By Pakalolo (Daily Kos) / June 21, 2023
Over 500 people are missing and presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after the overcrowded fishing boat from Tobruk, Libya, capsized, spilling 800 people into the sea.
Perhaps you missed this story as a submersible ship filled with billionaires is stuck at the wreckage of the Titanic two miles below the surface. Both instances are tragic stories, but American media is fixated on the story of the stranded billionaires.
According to Pakistani officials, the 82-foot fishing trawler left Egypt for Libya, where more passengers were stuffed into the trawler. Eight hundred people paid smugglers $4500 each; the passengers were Egyptians, Syrians, and Pakistani nationals.
Nine Egyptians were arrested and charged with “manslaughter, setting up a criminal organization, migrant smuggling, and causing a shipwreck.”
