I'm a Republican who lived in a major city for 20 years between the ages of 18 and 38. During that period, I witnessed the neglect of the local newspaper in issue after issue facing the city as it continued to decline. The media did not report on the ever increasing crime problem in the city...they did not report on the ever increasing taxes that were driving anyone who could get out of the city to the suburbs...they didn't report on the inability of the city officials inability to draw jobs to the city...and they never reported on the fact that the two largest employers in the county were hospitals and government. When those two categories become the largest employers, a city is doomed and they never reported it that way.

I'm not even saying that the city officials were horrible (they were just clueless). What I am saying is that the media did not do their job in closely examining the issues facing the city in a real way.