“Rural Appalachians have long bristled at the way outsiders have portrayed them, replacing their complicated reality with stereotypes about poor and ignorant mountain people.”

*Continues to perpetuate the stereotype with 90% of the article* https://twitter.com/ap/status/1311659899840069632

(1/?)So why would you not preface the article with this acknowledgment?

Why would you lead with these exact stereotypes and only briefly mention the positive aspects of Appalachia later on?

While I would be foolish to say there’s not issues of poverty and drug addiction in...

(2/?) The region, you’re continuing the longstanding tradition of the press coming in and finding the most extreme cases of destitution and focusing on that for most of the article.

I appreciate that you at least slightly acknowledged that Appalachia is more than these issues..

(3/?) but you did so long after reinforcing those stereotypes.

For once I think the people of the region would like a story about them to begin with something other than depictions of extreme poverty, ignorance and drug abuse.