So says this Business Insider Article and I have to say, the author, Joe Weisenthal, shows himself to be quite astute and insightful about media coverage.
Check out this excerpt from the article:
You'll hear a lot of squawking about how the businesses want to leave Illinois because of the state's budget woes, but here's a story you won't hear much in the press: According to the AP, Amazon is shutting down a Dallas distribution center because Texas is demanding the company pay sales tax collected in the state....
Amazon is also nixing a plan to expand its operations in Texas.
The article has been headlined all morning on the Yahoo Finance Page, but Weisenthal seems to realize he won't be read much beyond that:
Anyway, you won't hear about this story much because it doesn't jibe with Texas' reputation for being pro-business and anti-tax. Here they are losing a big company specifically because it's trying to extract more taxes than other states do.
Weisenthal does say he "sympathizes" with Texas and implies states have a legitimate right to try to claim state sales tax from companies that operate within their borders and sell to people from the same state. Even so, he makes this very pointed assertion regarding the nature of news media coverage:
But the fact remains, they're losing jobs over taxes, which is the exact same thing that many in the media slam other states for.
Double standard much?
More news reporters like this please!