People killed in terrorist attacks in 2017: Europe vs. Africa

Because many more people are killed in attacks in Africa?

1. For better or worse, English media are considered global media, because English is the de facto lingua franca. Things which are covered in English media reach global audience, while those which are not never travel outside of the local region they were reported in. New York Times does not just cover New York news, or Washington Post Washington's. They are international publications serving an international audience.

2. Because of the lopsided news coverage, many have developed a lopsided view of the state of the world. These people then elect leaders and support policies based on these views, and these have far-reaching consequences for the entire world, not just the electorate.

For example, during the refugee crisis many in US and Canada were complaining about accepting so many refugees, saying that the numbers are ridiculous and the politicians who support it are out of touch, that the countries could not possibly afford hosting so many refugees. They complained about US and Canada taking so much of burden of the refugee crisis and questioned why the countries in the region don't do more, instead of sending people thousands of kilometres to live in a faraway country.

In reality, US and Canada were not doing that much. They each admit less than 50,000 refugees per year. Meanwhile, Lebanon, a small country of about 5 million people, have already accepted 2.5 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees. Meaning that a third of the country's population are now refugees.

People don't have a clear view of the state of the world, because the media presents a lopsided view. It is not without merit to try to present a more well-rounded view.

Aside from moral reasons tied to the combination of equal moral worth of persons and the actual numbers, from a practical perspective the short-term danger from terrorism in the West is minimal, but the place terrorism (both the practices and the ideologies which support it) is sustained, evolving, and metastasizing—and where therefore the longer-term threat of escalating violence in the West is centered—is mostly in places like Africa and the Middle East.

Public lack of concern with terrorism as long as it isn't local is how we get blindsided by things like 9/11.

If we cared a little bit more about terrorism in places like Africa and the Middle East, we wouldn't has as much of it to care about in the West as we do, and we'd have much less reason to worry about even more here in the future.

- is the imagery really a stylistic choice made in bad faith, if people are more likely to be worse at visualizing the differences in size from numbers than vice versa?

- pathos is mutually exclusive from logos?

- or that the argument that African victims received less news attention per corpse is a pathos based appeal and not logos..? (or that the suggestion it is not a logos based appeal may be, upon further inspection, a pathos based appeal itself..)

- having felt manipulated by receiving accurate info that, nevertheless, made you better informed for having heard it, despite suspicions that there are ulterior motives for being reminded of dead Africans, too?

if you wouldn't mind, I'd at least want to see what you thought of that, or perhaps what a better way to communicate the information would have been

Israel also takes part in Eurovision.

Trying to convey that weight is entirely the point of the infographic.