A couple weeks ago both Steve Jobs and Wilson Greatbatch, the inventor of the pacemaker, died. The former got the cover of Time and epic media mourning while the latter got scanty obits buried on the backpage. This seems pretty messed up to me.
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I do see why: Jobs had a much larger media presence, thus making it easier for them to call attention to themselves, but I do agree with your sentiment. I remember when Princess Diana and Mother Theresa died within a short time of each other, one got a SHIT TON of media coverage while the other....not so much. I remember seeing football field sized deposits of flower arrangements and thinking to myself: the money that was spent on that could have fed tens of thousands of the starving that Mother Theresa devoted her life to, but in the meantime people were louding Diana for her 'charity work'.
The great conrtributions to humanity will be remembered by history, and the rabble rousers that are the mass media are to be taken with a grain of salt.
Another comparison would be the death of Amy Winehouse and any number of influential (Friedman for example) or good (individual soldiers) people. Its a sobering thought about the current values of society.
Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language also died like a day or two before Jobs
inventing the pacemaker is pure science?
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