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What is the attack? Who is effected? How much is the impact? When did it start? Why is it being done? Answer those questions, create a blog post, and send a link to that post to your local news, the national news and any outlet focused on nationalism since it is China - think right wing political sites. Make the job easy and this will get more coverage.

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So if I want a news outlet to pay more attention to a particular issue, the solution is to do the reporting myself and serve it up to them on a silver platter? Maybe that's true, but it hardly seems practical in general, nor does it answer the OP's question...

Essentially yes. If it's about your own business it's called PR: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

>So if I want a news outlet to pay more attention to a particular issue the solution is to do the reporting myself

Yes. Why not? People complain about it not being in the "mainstream" news, but then say, "well, that's someone else's problem to deal with".

The very basics I learned in ... grade school, in flyover county in the early '70s. As Wikipedia renders it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

Although I'll note that it's just now getting to be a big enough story for this, i.e. how long it's gone on and how clear it's become that it is a state action.

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