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ramblinsam OP t1_isuomtz wrote

Reply to comment by Lch207560 in Anyone following the Weyerhaeuser strike? by ramblinsam

I noticed! I only found out when I drove by the strikers in Raymond. Went home, did some googling, and aside from a month-old local tv news spot, there’s been ZERO mainstream coverage.

I find it especially surprising none of the state or local papers are covering this. they usually have more room editorially to dive deep into local interest stories.

I don’t want to turn this into dogpile on regional journalism; I’m pretty grateful for the job journalists do. But they really missed the beat on this one.

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Original-Ad-6010 t1_ituhgoz wrote

I work in Raymond and we have been trying for the last month or so to get media coverage, seems we are being ignored and are not important enough. Funny thing is we are the same union as the Boeing company and when they strike it’s on the news everywhere and everyday until the strike is over . They build airplanes and we produce lumber , seems like you would need more airplanes than lumber 🤔

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Bardamu1932 t1_isvretz wrote

What local papers? They've been reduced to chain advertising sheets with little or no "news" in them.

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ramblinsam OP t1_it0ulot wrote

I can’t argue that, I just read the online editions. The Olympian runs a half dozen decent stories of local import each day, but yeah the rest is clickbait content from their parent company. My local paper primarily runs high school sports, letters to ed, and maybe 1-2 items from city council meetings.

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