It was national news, until it was discovered to be a hoax, and then media coverage evaporated like water on a sidewalk during a Texas summer.
If the media was objective, they would expose all these hoaxes. After all, they damage the credibility of the media when they report fraudulent stories. But our media isn’t objective. They don’t care about the truth. They only care about promoting liberalism, aka communism. They are fellow travelers with a common goal. Too bad there isn’t a good way to flush the media and replace them with objective reporting.