• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The Thai cave boys are another good example. They were rural third-worlders, but it still became a sensation. It just has to be bloody and dramatic to attract attention. A story like "people on boat drown again" is too mundane, it becomes a statistic instead of a tragedy.

    What's really irksome is that these rich guys that pay people to put them weird but often already-explored places get called "explorers".