Do you understand the concept of 'pretty privilege' and particularly as it applies to media coverage?
Yes, I'm disagreeing with it because the naming of it as privilege simplifies something that isn't as pretty as that name. The complex reasons things become 'cause celébrès' like this are as much to do with ugliness of our interests, anything else.
The Slater case may have been influenced by the Mosley case but it was the confused and slightly seedy story surrounding the disappearance that I suggest stoked up the interest.
In this case Lynch went through an extraordinary legal case with relatively little coverage because legal cases are generally very very boring. The sinking has drama, a bit of glamour, and with the death of Chamberlain, that special cachet that conspiracy gives. We like hearing about rescue attempts, even when it's not the 'elite', think the Chilean miners, and the Thai boys in the cave. Sadly I suspect we like news of doomed rescues more than ones likely to be successful.
Putting this down to 'elite privilege' seems to me to miss out on the complexity of what drives the interest in these timebound, discrete news events. Calling it 'privilege' at all here, where it seems as likely, that there will be no more rescues, seems motivated by unjustified jealousy.