Local Media in the Tank

In case you needed any more proof, there's this:

• The Illinois Senate race is shaping up to be a high-profile and influential campaign that will have national implications. Not only because Illinois is the most populated state in the mid-west, but also because the seat up for grabs is President Obama’s former seat. If Republican candidate Rep. Mark Kirk, were to win the seat it would be seen as an enormous PR loss for the White House.
  
  
• Now we have the spectacle of one of the major local stations in Chicago threatening not to cover the campaign if the Republican continues to discuss the most damaging aspect of his opponent’s record. Is this the role of an FCC licensed station, entrusted with the role of serving the public interest in relation to a free-flow of information for the citizenry? Maybe in Chicago it is.

Channel 2 has been backtracking all day over this, but a supposedly "neutral" media outlet saying they won't cover a campaign because that candidate's biggest and strongest issue is that a bank his opponent was the chief loan officer at cost the taxpayers almost $400 million in part because of questionable loans made to Organized Crime figures?

Does anyone want to tell us what would be happening if it was Kirk's bank that failed? Yeah, that's what we thought, too.