<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Proximity as a Shortcut to Empathy

What We’re Following

Is indicating proximity the 157 people—the entirety of those on board—died after Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The passengers came from 35 different countries, from Ethiopia to Kenya, the United States to Canada. Some Western media reports cast aspersions on the safety of the airline (on the contrary, EA does not have a “poor safety record”); others, such as the ’s homepage coverage, highlighted the American deceased in its headline (yet the Washington area has the