Of course the mainstream media fumed about the sickly babies denied medical care by the defunded National Institutes of Health, the single moms forcefully weaned off assistance by suddenly shuttered Women, Infants and Children program offices, and visiting combat veterans unable to pay their respects at national monuments deemed off-limits during the protracted government shutdown.

But is it possible us political hacks miss the forest for the trees?

Business watchdog Jillian Eugenios sure as heck didn’t.

The multitalented newshound — she’s currently juggling a web producing gig at the “TODAY” show, freelance writing and graduate studies at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism — decided to take a step back from the budget fight fray and think about who, other than those already swept up in the headline wars, might be taking it on the chin in the ideological squabble.

All the talk about national parks, naturally, planted a seed in her mind.

“I feel like a lot of attention was given to the tourists not being able to have the vacation they imagined, which is fair,” she said of the outcry the administrative hiatus evoked from the leisurely minded. “But I thought, what about the people who rely on those same tourist destinations as their livelihood?”