Are you left stunned by the non-coverage of the biggest human trafficking bust in U.S. history while at the same time inherently understanding the “why”?

I went searching for coverage by a nationally known news outlet and omitted all local coverage such as KTLA, ABC7LA, etc. I was left with only 4 stories:

Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-arrests-idUSKBN15G5J6

CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriff-474-arrests-in-california-human-trafficking-sting/

NY Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/california-police-arrest-474-rescue-28-sexually-exploited-kids-article-1.2962303

Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/1/sheriff-474-arrested-in-california-human-trafficki/

Many stories cite AP as a source but I was unable to locate the story on the actual AP website:

https://www.ap.org/en-us/search?q=474 Sorry, no results were found for "474"

Here are just some of the nationally known news outlets that to my knowledge have not yet posted a single mention of this huge story:

ABC

Bloomberg

CNBC

CNN

Daily Beast

Huffington Post

MSNBC

NBC

New Republic

New York Times

New Yorker

People

POLITICO

The Guardian

The Hill

VICE

VOX

Washington Post

(Note: to build this list I used the list of “journalists” that were exposed by WikiLeaks for colluding with the Clinton Campaign and left off CBS)

The question everyone should be asking is why none of these major news organizations ran a single story and used Reuters as a source – something they do all day, every day, year after year.

Is it “just a local story”? Well, it probably involves the following Federal agencies, so I would reject that argument:

United States Attorney’s Office

Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Federal Bureau of Investigation

United States Marshals Service

United States Department of Labor

The following agencies and task forces participated: (Police and Sheriff’s departments omitted)

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fresno

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Monterey

Homeland Security Investigations, Los Angeles

Homeland Security Investigations, Ventura

Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office

Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force

Long Beach Human Trafficking Task Force

Los Angeles Unified School District Police

Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force

Riverside County Anti-Trafficking Task Force

San Bernardino County Trafficking Task Force

Santa Barbara Human Trafficking Task Force

Ventura County Coalition Against Human Trafficking

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