re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rachel Maddow covered the problems facing local government officials in dealing with the epidemic, particularly focusing on Alabama.

She also notes the twin failure of the national media outlets, which as the virus sweeps inland, the coverage is being mostly dropped.

She points out that one of the things national media outlets could do is focus on local media outlets to get a better handle on what’s happening away from the coasts.

For us here, we just see it as the Flyover Country effect: If it’s occurring in Flyover Country, it’s not occurring. Meat packing plants get covered because they affect people on the coasts, but the towns they’re in don’t get covered. As for the rest, it’s like they don’t exist. Seen any coverage of Weld County, Colorado’s disaster other than the numbers I post here?

Weld County has one-sixth of the total cases of Nebraska, and sixty percent of the deaths of Nebraska. They have less than one-tenth of our state’s population.

Don’t feel bad, even on the coasts most coverage is devoted to the major cities (NYC, Philly, Boston, Atlanta, etc). The only reason the national media has given a fuck about Virginia Beach in the past 3 months is because the first nice weekend saw the beaches packed in defiance of the governor’s order.