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A lot probably has to do with media over-saturation, fatigue and burnout. It'll probably get worse in the weeks to come, especially with money disbursements and the ensuing squabbles that will come.
It's like 9/11: at first there was shock and horror, but then, I was like oh who cares, get over it. I got so sick of it. I didn't know anyone who died in that "awesome" disaster and frankly, was annoyed that it screwed up traveling as we knew it forever. But I suppose we were all affected because were human and we have feelings. I remember how that Kenyan village made a donation of like 50 cows or something (which was equivalant to a lot for them) because they felt sorry for our loss in 9/11. That was pretty moving.
Then I got really irritated when the 'victims' were fighting over the money, police vs. firefighters, and the instant millionaires that came out of it later.
After awhile, 9/11 became just another ho-hum part of our collective history just like this will. Remember the Iranian earthquake last year? I didn't until I saw post in another thread (US Aid, I think) that showed all the world disasters of the last 100 years or so. Crazy stuff. We move on, we live.
One of the images that really struck me however, is the one of all those bodies washed up on the beach. Horrifying and illustrative of the magnitude of the whole thing.
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