Oh, come on, Rebel. That statement is actually kind of b.s. though. We can give it good lip service as an idea, but the reality is nothing like that. Whitney Houston will always score far higher in our consciousness than any starving kid in Africa for the reason that she directly affected and personally registered with many more lives in this world than a random kid who dies in Africa ever could.
And it's not just kids in Africa either. Record producers, studio musicians, etc., that have all worked with Whitney Houston will never get so much as a notice when they die by comparison. They are no more "important" than a starving kid in Africa in this comparison. This is the social dynamics of life and media. Pretending that there are other possibilities than that are recklessly naive.
It's not good or bad. It just is.