Jake Reiner gave his first interview eight months after his parents were stabbed to death in their Brentwood home — a Hollywood tragedy the establishment press has blanketed like a national event, while the addiction and mental health crises that destroyed this family ravage working-class America without a fraction of the attention.

Rob Reiner, the director behind The Princess Bride and Stand By Me, and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead of stab wounds in their home on December 14. Their 32-year-old son Nick was arrested hours later, indicted on two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait. He has pleaded not guilty.

NBC News called Rob Reiner "beloved." The Guardian framed the story around Jake's grief. Both outlets lavished coverage on a family tragedy that, stripped of the celebrity surname, mirrors thousands of others across the country that never make it past local briefs.

Jake Reiner, 35, told KABC-TV in Los Angeles that his sister Romy, 28, called him from their parents' home: "Romy told me our dad was dead, and then she said, 'I can't find Mom.'" Romy lived across the street and discovered her father's body.

Jake described losing his parents and, effectively, his brother. "He's in jail. I physically lost my parents, and then Nick was arrested, now it's just me and Romy, and we have to navigate this by ourselves essentially," he said. He has not spoken to Nick and has not attended any court hearings. When asked whether he was surprised his brother was the suspect, Jake said, "I feel like that's something I don't really want to answer right now." Asked if he ever feared something like this could happen, he declined to answer.

Both NBC and The Guardian highlighted the 2015 film Being Charlie, co-written by Nick and directed by his father, as a creative bond rooted in Nick's long struggle with addiction and mental health. Jake confirmed: "They never stopped wanting to help him. They never stopped helping him."

What neither outlet mentioned: Nick Reiner demanded access to his parents' trust fund to pay for his defense, according to the Daily Caller — a detail about money and privilege that the legacy press conveniently buried. A judge denied the request.

The Reiners had wealth, connections, access to the best care money could buy. It didn't save them. The same addiction and mental health crisis that consumed their son destroys families in every hollow and rust belt town in this country, except those families don't get sit-down interviews on KABC or fawning obituaries in The Guardian.

Jake Reiner, to his credit, seemed to recognize this. "Just because I lost my parents in the way that I did, it doesn't mean that you losing a loved one in some other way is not also devastating," he said. "There are a lot of people out there that are living through that, and I think for the first time in my life, I see them."

A family with every advantage couldn't survive what the system failed to fix. The press only shows up when there's a famous name. The open question is whether anyone in power will notice the same catastrophe when it's your family next.