Lansing, michigan, vincent duffy, chairman of the radio television digital news foundation. and here in washington, richard prince who covers news about journalists of color in his online column. so, as journalists, i think we re used to politicians becoming convicted felons after they get elected so this is kind of an unusual thing. vince, you wrote about this for the newsletter. what happened here? well, this was really a problem of the newspaper to begin with. they just didn t cover it. they had a questionnaire that wantwaz david filled out and sent in and that s the basis of everything you need to know article that they had. after mr. davis was elected, the day after, they accomplish publ story throughout flint telling voters that he was a convicted killer something voters may have wanted to know before the
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They already knew about this as vince pointed out. this is good that this segment is coming up after our segment about martin bashir. what s important is not the apology but what you re going to do about it. the voters elected somebody who had a criminal record. they understood the criminal record and in fact if you look at the comments on some of the stories, some thought this was a good thing because he would be able to relate to his constituents better. now, vince, they didn t just make a mistake with wantwaz davis. another felon was elected and two other people with bankruptcies who were elected who weren t covered. does it say something about the city that so many officials with legal problems are getting elected and are journalists making too much of this? you know, i don t know what it says about the city. the city is under emergency manager because of financial problems so the state really has control of it and at the moment city council doesn t have a whole lot of power so