Vermont’s media has a rural blind spot

This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth. A cross-partisan grassroots movement of many thousands rises from nowhere, forces the reversal of large parts of a gargantuan law months before its rules take effect, and offers a hyper-articulate set of underrepresented economic, cultural and policy interests. In an objective newsroom, that is the story of the year. At Vermont Public, VTDigger and Seven Days, coverag