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...Detroit Free Press, one of the old city dailies, on the brink of extinction and in the shadow of the failing car industry, won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Last year, the paper published text messages between the city's mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his female chief of staff. The mayor went to jail...
Unfortunately, most newspaper readers will never pay for content online, and the Detroit Pulitzer reveals some of the problems of old world print publications. The Kilpatrick story was about scandal, betrayal, and the abuse of power. In those departments, it was a match for some of Shakespeare's best work. But the series of articles probably did not get the Free Press more than a few new subscribers, and no one would have paid for it online. Just after the story broke, the most important and interesting parts of the information were on the local Detroit TV and radio stations...
...Former Detroit mayor and laughable clown Kwame Kilpatrick jailed for his part in a sex-and-text scandal after his half-baked story about HAXXORS taking over his phone turned out to be, well, ostensibly that...
...during an interview. Ifill has interviewed virtually every African-American politician of note, tracking a generational shift away from leaders like Jesse Jackson who were schooled in the civil rights movement toward Ivy Leaguers like Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And while scoundrels like Detroit's disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are almost absent, there's much here to justify her assertion that "the bench is deep" with rising political stars--and her role as their enthusiastic chronicler...
Last summer, a judge sent the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, to jail for violating his bail. How was that case different from Madoff's? In that case, Kilpatrick traveled to Canada. International travel is about the most threatening thing a defendant can do to raise a judge's inference that he is a risk for flight. So that really raised the radar of the judge. What's more, Kilpatrick got the order not to travel out of the Detroit area in his criminal case. In this case, the order that Madoff was accused of violating...