A quick Google on that suggests it's over
2,000 road deaths per day on average - but that's not newsworthy because it happens every day of the year!
Or because its not a seldom accumulation of fatalities.. Of course a plane crash is going to wake the media, it's a fairly rare and devastating occurrence. Have some respect for those who perished instead of causing petty arguments, the guy was only asking a plausible question.
For your information road deaths; car accidents, are frequently reported and broadcast in the tabloids, and across the news channels, a quick search in google can verify this. These, however, only grab the minorities attention unlike an air disaster. Nevertheless this certainly causes the ubiquitous ppruner to frantically search the news channels so that they can be the first to the post, which will then be followed by a dozen similar postings cantankerously speculating their 'adept' viewpoint.
Any aviation related incident gets extensive coverage here on pprune, it's obviously in the public interest, why can't it be so in the media?
Barry Lloyd:
...and how many people are killed on the roads around the world every day?
Probably about the same number as were killed in the Madrid accident. Never hear that on your TV news in the evening do you?
Ever heard of anyone who's afraid of getting onto a bus?
If as you say, which is clearly a wayward approximation, the total killed on the roads is the equivalent to the total of those who perished on spanair, then if all these cars simultaneously hit head on on the M1, causing a singular catastrophic accident, in which many people lost their lives, do you believe this would then merit the media's attention?