erin mccann |Verified account

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

Yeah the statewide teachers strike is being criminally underreported, especially by the @nytimes & TV news & your defensive tweet rant doesn't change that fact. Most people I've casually asked haven't heard a thing about it, compared to celebrity gossip or the Florida shooting

Don’t be a drama king. West Virginia newspapers, tv, radio has been all over this story, with national media in the mix as well. Twitter woefully underrepresents local and more detailed news coverage. NYT, WashPo aren’t places to go for this kind of coverage.

Interesting how most of the "media is doing a good job" claims are coming from journalists. I invite you to consider if and how your occupation might be hindering you from hearing other perspectives

This is not a question of whether they’re doing a good job, we’re discussing the amount of coverage, which has been a lot by WVA media. The coverage is there, and extensive if you go beyond Twitter feed and national orgs. Don’t discredit work by local journalists because

You can’t look beyond the big orgs for coverage. I worked at local newspapers-we NEVER let national news come in our hood and cover story better than we did. We had local connections, more in-depth, 24/7 coverage.

I’m not opposed to hearing different views, but when they don’t take into account an entire state of news orgs doing wall-to-wall coverage on this strike, I have to speak. It’s rare to find ‘no coverage’ on issue this huge.