What deserves more coverage: NJ traffic jam or 300,000 West Virginians with contaminated water?

WCHS-TV reporter Kallie Cart, 33 weeks pregnant, drew national attention for pushing back against the president of Freedom Industries, who answered a few questions about his company’s role in a chemical spill that affected the drinking water of 300,000 people in West Virginia, sipped a little bottled water, then tried to get away.

But Cart wasn’t having it. “We have more questions,” she called out. “Hey, hey, hey, hey. N-no. We’re not done.”

Amazingly, Southern turned back for more.

The attention Cart’s gotten for that moment has been flattering, as well as humbling and overwhelming, she said.

But West Virginia reporters also are disappointed that the national media is paying more attention to New Jersey governor Chris Christie and the artificially created traffic jam to get even with another politician, The Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote. 

Apparently disasters in West Virginia are too common, she wrote. 

Plus Christie is the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination in 2016.

To read the entire Poynter.com article, click on http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/236019/while-national-media-focuses-on-bridgegate-w-va-reporters-stay-on-water-story/