More of the Mundane

Staying on the topic of sensationaliation,a good post in the La Times which asks why we seem to be so obsessed with plane crashes and bridge collapses when it is the more mundane things that kills us.Specifically Meghan writes

Take the case of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. Yes, it was the kind of visually intense story that television news can't get enough of, and, yes, death toll estimates were initially as high as 80. But within a few days, it seemed clear that far fewer people had died. And although that doesn't make the bridge collapse (or, for that matter, the subsequent Utah mine collapse) any less of a tragedy, it does make you wonder what other stories were bumped from the headlines in favor of breathless, around-the-clock coverage of the search-and-rescue operation, the victims' families and the ensuing presidential visit.

It is a point in fact but we the public are rarely interested in the mundane and neither would viewing figures or print sales