I think KBTX wasn't terrible. They actually had some coverage before the vote and during the city council meeting (not sure if they stayed the whole time), and they did let people know the result of the vote.
I think this is the first piece they did on it:
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/college-station-midtown-developer-residents-share-concerns-about-potential-data-center/At the bottom of that one, it has links to the others. Among other topics, they do tell people that it's going to be discussed Sept. 11 and that the agenda item got adjusted so it would be earlier in the meeting.
I think it was good of them to include
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/11/college-station-city-leaders-adjust-data-center-agenda-item-ahead-meeting/ to let people know before the meeting (they posted it at 2:18 that day; I don't know what time of day that change was made, but I think it's close to when they put that online) that it was being moved from the very last item on the agenda to the first topic after the consent agenda. I notice that's after the time that people had to sign up to talk, but my guess is that's a large part of why the agenda order changed. My guess is that the reason the mayor and rest of city council was okay with Bob Yancy's suggestion to move that item earlier in the meeting was because 75 people signed up to talk (pretty sure that's the number people said).
Anyhow, I think that local media often posts stuff after it's happened, so posting it earlier is useful.
They included
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/college-station-residents-push-back-against-sale-land-proposed-midtown-data-center/ about people meeting with Councilman Yancy at Coopers BBQ to express their concerns, and for people who hadn't heard about it, seeing a visual of how packed that place was and reading or listening to some of the people discussing their problems with it would be useful.
I think KBTX also included something about the discussion on this board and/or the petition that somebody was circulating on change.org, but I'm not sure which of their articles (I guess they're articles?) included links to those, or if I only think they included it and those were actually just on Rusty Surette's Facebook or something. Sometimes I see stuff that's actually on the KBTX website and other times, it's either on Rusty Surette's Facebook or maybe KBTX's (I think they do post stuff on Facebook sometimes that's not on the website itself).
So, maybe not A+ level of coverage, but I think y'all are being too harsh with giving them an F. They did actually let people know about it before it happened, including letting people know there was some pushback. There are probably some people who first heard about the issue from their coverage and knew to look further, so I think they did help.
I haven't looked at The Eagle in quite a while (website's paywalled, and the paper itself only comes out three times a week now), so I don't know what they covered or if they did, and I don't know about other local media. I thought someone said WTAW had something, but I haven't heard or read their coverage of it, and I don't normally see/hear what KAGS has. I don't know what other local media covers stuff around here.
*edited because I left out a word (I put "agenda" instead of "consent agenda")
