On Detroit Bankruptcy, All Three Networks Skip the Sky High Taxes, Dem

Scott Whitlock
July 19th, 2013 11:17 AM
 All three networks on Thursday night and Friday morning avoided key factors in the bankruptcy of Detroit, skipping the city's astronomically high tax rate and ignoring Democratic dominance for the previous half century. (Detroit's last Republican mayor left office in 1962.) Instead, ABC, NBC and CBS acted as though the bankruptcy, what Brian Williams called "the slow-moving tragedy of decline…