Do you really believe that this information would be in your Diocesan newspaper?  There are dioceses that don't even have newspapers any more---like the Diocese of Cleveland.  So the people there would not even know that this is an issue in the Church.  

The documents coming out Vatican II and the 1983 Code of Canon Law, referred to the need to consult and gather the sense of the faithful ["sensus fidelium"], to provide a place where discussion and questioning could take place, AND there could be feed-back from bishops and priests to the people.  Unfortunately, most of the national bishops' conferences did not set up as national priorities, the means to do this.   

So it is wonderful that the NCR has done this, and provided the means for people to express their thought. And now, TV programs and investigation groups are questioning the bishops OUTRIGHT about an issue that has shaken the official church to its core---the abuse of the young by priests and cover-ups by bishops.