When has the news ever covered stories solely in proportion to the number of people who died? I don't understand how you could be astonished by this...
Well, when I was reading it on HN I thought "There was a bomb in Boston and two people died, what's so intersting about this, why it's on HN and why are people in the comments so emotional?" I'm not from the US but even where I live this is top news. I felt similarly with the boring and overhyped Fukushima crisis.
