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

Nobody is claiming the local media isn't covering the story. The criticism is this is a major national issue & deserves indepth national coverage, the kind that informs a broad layer of everyday Americans, which objectively has not happened, since most people don't know about it

Every day Americans....Ok, leaving that be for now, but the coverage is there. If I want to know more about issue after reading national news summary, I do a Google search, check local news orgs. You should try it, unless your real goal is just to media bash.

Your claim that 300 million Americans will read a short national news summary and then go investigate more is completely absurd. Most will never see it in the first place