Compassion that costs nothing (new-deutschland.de)

»You have to find these children in Thailand simply in the cave and send a strong MESSAGE so that the other children do not run in the caves. We can not all get out of the earth, "satirist Shahak Shapira said Sunday with a post on Twitter.The satirical portal" The Gazetteur "took the bill and added his request:" On the contrary, the team rescue should be held responsible. No shuttle to the outside world! "

Nastiness, she did not judge the twelve boys and an adult who died for weeks in a cave in Thailand for their life.The world makes a great contribution to the rescue operation. The search on Google News lists more than eight million results under the headings "Thailand, Cave, Boys."

This is not surprising, especially because most media use the "Cave Drama in Thailand" (Bild.de have for days discovered, Bild.de has repeatedly given to history the most prominent place on its home page, presenting accents and even a live ticker.Other information portals make the boulevard magazine, like the Newstickerschleuder Focus.de.But even more serious media like Welt.de focus their coverage for days on issues such as whether the billionaire Elon Musk can help the trapped with a mini sub-ma rin or Hollywood has already expressed interest in shooting the substance (Stern.de). 19659005] One wonders: is it always the good relationship with which a human drama, but ultimately completely inconsistent politically is reported? It's a truism that the attention of the media affects the center of public perception.

By way of comparison: The new Seebrücke initiative, which has mobilized thousands of people across the country. weekend for a cry of outrage over the death in the Mediterranean, has only received a fraction of the attention.This is not as if the initiative was not worth the media coverage But: There are simply no leaders, emphases, news ticker and title pages

Under the keyword pier on Bild.de finds exactly one article: He This is the fundraiser of the broadcaster Klbad Heufer, the money for Refugee Rescue in the Mediterranean is collecting.The jetty? is a side note. "Spiegel Online" was the protest march of the ek-end, after all, she was worth a contribution based on the material of the agency. An objective? But that did not exist here either. (This does not mean that colleagues would not focus on flight and migration in the broad sense.)

Uta Schleiermacher also considers the role and responsibilities of taz.de. On why the cover of the boys in the cave turns around, but in the accompaniment of the drama in the Mediterranean they are obviously partly missed: "And if we – the media – our cameras and microphones on one of these directed boats? we – readers, listeners and viewers – turn our attention and sympathy to the people in the boats? "

The man is a narrative animal, as Bernhard Pörksen, a media specialist, tells in an interview with tagesschau.de. "We live in stories, we think in stories, We dream of stories – in a sense, our environment – our world – is not made up of atoms but stories. "And that's exactly what the example shows of the football team in Thailand.Their faces are known to We know what they look like, what they do in their spare time, who they are, and how emotionally exciting they are. This creates proximity.

According to the author Schleiermacher, the question is whether the population would pursue these stories about refugees with the same intensity and sympathy. "The stories of refugees in need in the Mediterranean tell us a lot about our own failures and racism". The fact that the people of the Mediterranean are in need is directly related to us in Europe. The drama in Thailand? Rest, however, without consequences.

Matthias Drobinski testifies on sueddeutsche.de a loss of empathy "with the boat people in the Mediterranean". What he does not doubt: It is right when the media report on Thailand because it is "in the middle of all the fear and suffering of the trapped and their loved ones, also a story about the power of the country." Humanity and compbadion, the capacity of people that is to say, make the misery and sorrow of others at least partly and partly for their own misery and suffering. "

Drobinski also recalls the role of the report Damage to the boys in the cave Clear You feel sorry for the asylum seekers who come to see us via the Mittelmerr Yes, but …

In the case of the latter , the boundaries of the discernable have long since changed. "Now, sympathy is in question. He is slandered by right-wing populists, but also in established media, as naive and self-destructive. Drobinski makes a comparison with a cynical result. If a tragedy like in Thailand were to be repeated at one point, those who already say today about refugees traveling in the Mediterranean should reach the same conclusion with some tourists who are deep in a cave

The Great Empathy wave that has to do with this, because our sympathy does not cost anything. "Everyone can rejoice – this relieves at a time when the contrasts between people, groups and states have grown so much that there is not so much hope and opportunity. hope for together. "