Inconsistent Journalism

The misfortune of South Carolina Mark Sanford is a personal tragedy that has been splashed all over the news pages.
Sanford had the misfortune of being in the wrong state at the wrong time.
Not too long ago a sitting governor of Colorado was rumored to have sired one, maybe two, children out of wedlock. This rumor was so pervasive and just under the surface -- but unlike the dramas of Elliot Spitzer or Sanford or several other prominent U. S. senators and candidates, the Colorado story never saw the light of day.
On a Valentine's Day the alternative weekly Westword acknowledged the rumor by printing a humorous speculation on whom the governor's paramor might be. It touched a wide variety of personalities, even male, making the rumor all the more humorous.
But why was it never publicized as was Spitzer and now Sanford and so many others?
The unanswered question was whether one, or maybe two, of the alleged unwed mothers were also state or public employees and if any public money had been involved in any of this.
My source, an officer at the Denver Press Club, said it was two children and that the media had agreed not to run the story in exchange for the governor not running for any office again.
A Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate in Illinois will have his sealed divorce records opened from pressure from the Chicago Tribune. This paved the way for the candidate to step down and give his opponent Barack Obama an easy win.
Politics is a rough and tumble, poltiical life and death spectator sport.
But not in Colorado.
Recently the Rocky Mountain News shuttered its doors. The news staff was put out on the street.
Did Colorado residents become any less informed? Judging from how some people are treated, compared with others around the nation, apparently not.