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Governor Mark Sanford is probably a big Michael Jackson fan now
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Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina was being torched by the media last week because he was caught cheating on his wife in Argentina and not governing his state. Pressure was building on the Governor to resign. On Thursday Michael Jackson died and the Sanford story was relegated to the back pages of newspapers and the ends of broadcasts. The resignation momentum had been halted and the Governor's job was saved. The mass media decides what is news. They pick and choose easy stories that they think will sell and then run them into the ground. Mark Sanford is as corrupt as he was on Wednesday but now that a man who enjoyed the company of young boys, plastic surgery, and singing has suddenly died, the mass media does not feel the need to talk about Sanford anymore.
The Baltimore news scene can be viewed as a much smaller version of the national scene. The big players pick the easy stories and run with them. They could be proactive and do some investigative digging but usually they choose not to. Has the local population been dumbed down to the point where this is the only type of "news" they can consume, or has the time come for a publication to step up and start exposing the massive underbelly of Baltimore life and politics? Time will tell.
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