erin mccann |Verified account

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

Just as absurd of your debunked claim that no one is covering this huge national story? If you want to know more about the story, you’ll look it up. If not, you’re not that interested.

That presupposes the story is being covered enough to break through the white noise so that everyday people can learn about it the first time and then go learn more. That is objectively not happening

You keep talking about "regular folks" and "every day people," as if they are somehow different from people who read news.

Your average 65 year old Iowa farmer doesn't get their news from Twitter. They get their news from nightly television or the daily paper. A one paragraph AP summary on page C16 or a 30-60 second clip on TV (or just a banner ticker) will get missed completely.