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.

Republicans run for office in inner city districts? Huh, that's news to me.

They run all the time and never get a fair shake. Editorial boards will write things like, "Candidate X (Democrat) is more experience and should be reelected." That's fine, but what do we have in return for the experience of Candidate X? Most of the time, the answer is ever decaying urban centers.

The beat goes on and on in cities and they continue to decay. The media helps keep time.

Conservatives whining about media bias has been tired for a while now. The bottom line is all of the Republican voters left the cities to "live among their own kind" in suburbia.

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.