Every single tweet about the media ignoring the teacher strike in West Virginia is filled with links from NPR, LAT, NYT, WaPo and others covering the teacher strike in West Virginia
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(And a lot of these tweets? They're coming from people *in the damn media* who haven't bothered to google, because we all like to pretend our twitter feeds are a good proxy for what the rest of the media is covering and boy howdy is that another tweetstorm altogether)
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A not insubstantial part of this comes from the amount of news coming out of Washington and tired journalists apparently trying to will the chaotic era we're all living through out of existence. https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/969982520191143936?s=21 …
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"Why isn't anyone covering West Virginia?" (When they are) is also a way of saying "why is Washington dominating the news," when they can't say that because that question itself is absurd.
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Anyway if you find yourself wondering "why isn't the media covering this?" a good thing to do is get off twitter and go take a spin on a news site or google news. ("Get off twitter" is my advice in all situations, actually.)
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My mentions are taking on a flavor of "Corporate media [that is often unionized] hates unions and that's why they're not covering the strike [that it is actually covering]!" So, uh, I'm taking my own advice and getting off Twitter for a while. Masterchef Junior is back!
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Just for the sake of continuity, I'm linking part II of this thread to yesterday's part i. <waves> hello, here is part iihttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/970317166460506113?s=21 …
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This thread is on point. I do wonder if part of it is reader interest influenced by those same media folks. That is it's been years of stereotypical WV coverage so when a big story happens :crickets not clicks:
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The first complaint I saw was on the second day of the strike, after The Times had published its first story, and it was exactly along those lines.
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