General Discussion

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times has been covering the deaths for some time, and I've seen/heard stories in other outlets, but I don't have a sense of how much this is registering with the nation's voters.

It is the sort of thing that should be getting round-the-clock coverage, especially considering how the media have reacted with other stories. We had four years of hearings about an attack caused by hostile forces overseas, then the frenzied coverage of the emails, but does mass death draw the attention of the news media the same way?