There are some posts on this topic that say the media is partly responsible for the problems in urban centers because they don't report the real problems. I would like to say to those people what Marlo said to a security guard last season that was later killed..."You want it to be one way, but it's the other way."

The media spends enough time reporting on city problems. That is not where they fall down. City media falls down because on one hand they run story after story about the problems in the cities and on the other hand, most big city papers endorse the same liberal Democrats in election after election (one party dominance is bad for every level of government). Decades of a one party strangle hold on cities across the United States have caused the problems in our urban centers. The media has largely contributed to the train wreck through their support of public officials from the same party in election after election.

Urban media also may run a negative story about a Democrat, but they rarely run tough follow up stories. That is something we see in The Wire this season. If you watch closely, they ran a negative story about the council president and real estate deals in Baltimore, but they have not run a follow up story about the issue. In real life, a Republican council president would have story after story run about the corruption until the president resigned.

This is what we get when the media goes from fact reporters to social crusaders. The media is a huge part of the problem in urban centers.