I definitely hear what you're saying. I often get annoyed and frustrated when the news media spend days obsessing about a handful of deaths in a train crash, for example, while ignoring the millions of people dying and suffering every year due to (relatively easily) preventable causes.

However, you have to remember what is considered news. Those millions of people who are suffering have been suffering for a long time. There's nothing new to report about it. We all know about it. We're willfully ignoring it. It's not news. It would be news if people in extremely poor countries weren't suffering.

A new personal, touching essay by a prominent member of the tech community about dealing with the unexpected death of her husband, another prominent member of the tech community, is news.