Uh, Jerry, I hate to say this but last week my wife saved a copy of USA Today for me because it had a whole article on the Toogood case that explained how she was an Irish Traveller, along with a sidebar about who the Travellers are. So that particular newspaper has definitely been using the Traveller angle at least a bit. I still think there's truth to what you say, though.

BTW, I'm ambivalent about the USA Today Travellers article, because it used the tactic of saying "Travellers have been known to commit fraud, but many are law-abiding." So you can't fault it for the facts, but if we said "blacks have been known to commit robbery, but many are law-abiding" or "Jews have been known to be stingy, but many are generous" I think we'd feel uncomfortable despite the fact that the sentences are obviously accurate in a strict sense. Still, the paper had no choice but to mention the common perception that Travellers commit fraud, because otherwise there's no real reason to be talking about Travellers at all!

I'll see if we've saved the paper at home, and I'll let you know the date if so.