@johank76 This is a nice essay that kind of captures the thing I'm thinking/writing about, but I'd like to find some hard data to support the general idea (which I think they are roughly correct about)

I know people do this kind of work, but I don't know how its done, nor if anyone is doing it now in the fast moving situation we are in. But it would be great to see differences in numbers of personal stories given, space given, the language used to refer to the deaths, the frequency of mentions, etc. etc. etc.

A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!

tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.

Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE.