I just noticed this earlier (there are 2-3 more articles above this). They’re absolutely shameless.
Hmm. I’ve been pretty adamantly of the opinion that Everest should be permanently closed, but you may be changing my mind on the subject.
Edited because of weird brain fart.
Analysis: Have news outlets gone overboard in coverage of missing sub?
Analysis: Are news outlets capable of self-awareness?
Analysis: Are nautical puns appropriate for coverage of maritime disasters?
Ha! I didn’t even catch that! 
Wasn’t there also some wacky movie or show about an airplane crashing in the ocean and it somehow stayed pressurized and the air breathable at the bottom of the sea?
Yeah, I think it was part of the Airport series. Maybe Airport '77?
I know that happened in the silly TV show Airwolf. Even as a kid I couldn’t get over how ridiculous that was.
It doesn’t take a media expert to realize news coverage is largely based around novelty.
Some guy just became the 285th rich person to die on Everest? Yawn. Hundreds of poor migrants just drowned when their ship capsized? Happens all the time. A handful of billionaires believed to have died on a poorly designed submarine while visiting the Titanic? Hot damn, we haven’t had one of those before!
Captain Obvious has weighed in.
Captain Obvious, USN (Ret’d).
I’m never setting foot on any boat that with a name that starts with ‘Tit’ either… except maybe if were the Titanium Titillating Titmouse
You are correct.
That was actually an incredibly ignorant take on the situation. He actually thought they had a ‘phone’ (his word) to communicate with the surface. And that all that had happened was a loss of electricity so they didn’t have lights.
There is an old saying among British merchant seafarers.
If you can’t take a joke, don’t sign on.
I remember it mainly because of the Universal studio tour having it as an attraction, tour members would be selected for scenes and filmed, and the bits interjected and shown at the end of the tour. It was typical late Seventies fare, really.
Interesting how schlock like this lives on.
And there are stories about that contrast.
Did you ask for Babs?
