I would say they deserve different kinds of coverage.

A plane crash or terrorist attack is the kind of immediate news story that can dominate a news cycle for a week and that makes sense. But news papers and magazines also devote plenty of coverage to long term, on going problems, such as the coverage devoted to sexual harassment in the past year. And indeed, even when there have been no major terror attacks in several months, there is still always an endless stream of articles discussing the issue and how we might best approach it.

We should expect that our news sources to devote more of their long form, investigative pieces to domestic problems like heart disease and traffic accidents.