Digested week: Public's reaction to the Titan sub billionaires is shaming | Emma Brockes

Complaints that people care more about rich explorers than for immigrants lost at sea miss the mark

There's only one story this week and that is the story of news outlets struggling to keep the relish out of their coverage of the missing submersible. In the US, as in the UK, it feels like the only story in town. It also concerns a tiny number of rich individuals whose plight, when shared by those further down the pecking order, excites nothing like the same interest. As placement of the story swings wildly between titles, newsrooms appear in meltdown over how much of the public appetite in the stricken sub to indulge.