Further, there’s a lot going on elsewhere right now, and so… between election coverage and the not-a-total-war-honest in the Middle East, it’s understandable that the gutted reportage staffs of the WaPo and NYT are unable to shift focus on a dime.

We all know that if this had happened in a different part of the US, there'd be more coverage. If this had happened in upstate NY, they'd have chartered helicopters.