Local Response to CNN Story

Anderson Cooper 360 correspondent Gary Tuchman visited Clay County, Kentucky as part of the Nation Divided series. The report, in which he called the county, “one of the poorest in the country,” aired on Monday’s broadcast.

Now the story has garnered a large local response. Marie Luby of WYMT in Kentucky writes, “Images of poverty in Clay County in a CNN story about voting made some in Manchester furious.”

One of those, State Sen. Robert Stivers, says, “They want to perpetuate an image of Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia that is not good for keeping our people here or drawing new people here.”

But the town’s mayor, Carmen Lewis, who was interviewed in the piece, was happy with the representation. “They’re telling the truth, and if this somehow, something positive comes from it, you know that’s what we’re shooting for,” Lewis said.

Click continued to see the full report from Monday’s show…

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