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"Maritime catastrophes in the Mediterranean," headlinesTageszeitung which takes a critical look at the media coverage devoted to the sinking of the Costa Concordia.
The Berlin daily notes that many of the shipwrecks in the Mediterranean “are not front-page news,” and illustrates its article with the photograph of a boat that sank off the coast of a Tunisian island with 700 Libyan refugees on board in June 2011.
Having enumerated a list of “the worst maritime catastrophes in the Mediterranean since 2006,” the Berlin alternative daily remarks:
Hundreds of thousands of people end up as anonymous corpses on the high seas or washed up on rocky beaches. Tens of thousands of refugees fall into the hands of the mafia in a crisis stricken Europe that has no room or humanity for them. [...] The dead are among us, whether from a luxury cruise ship or a trawler.
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