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You should call the 10 o'clock news so they can cover this.


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I would suggest you turn on the 6pm daily news.

Call a local paper in the area where it happened and suggest they cover it?

just turn on the news

The news used to come on at 10PM, I wonder if it was that.

Is it worth contacting your local news station?

May be a long shot but the more people know about what's actually happening then the more pressure they can put on their congress critter to do something.


yep, and call the local TV station - they love these type of filler stories that make cities look like crooks

If you are a reporter, news doesn’t follow business hours.

“If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

This is literally a local TV evening news story.


Just copy your local media station, nightly news loves running muck-raking things about stealerships.

Have you contacted TV stations and other news outlets?

Gee that sounds awesome when I'm trying to watch the local news at 9AM in the morning.

If you like this sort of reporting, please make sure you are a paying subscriber for your local newspaper. We must support this sort of essential journalism with our pocketbooks.

Sad Truth: No local channel has woken up to it, only 1 Breaking news banner in KPIX Channel 5 but others are busy playing late night informercials. How do people using no HN, twitter, facebook etc get updates?

There is not enough actual news happening in the world to justify 24-hour news coverage. So the media has to make stuff up until they fill the time. But then once they do this, they're also somehow incapable of telling the difference between what they've made up and actual news.

And someone else's news is not necessarily my news. Horrible crimes happening on the other side of the country don't make it any more likely that there's going to be a horrible crime in my backyard. That's a local news story, but drives clicks and outrage, so now it's national/world news.


That assumes you have a local news source. Many don't.

Contact Matt Richtel from NYT, and your local stations too

This! My dad likes to put the news on during the day when we visit and this type of thing happens all the time.

That sounds like an issue with the evening news to me.

That reminds me, contact your local [channel] On Your Side investigator, and go on TV with your story.
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