All through the jury selection for the Kwame Kilpatrick case, the media was vilified. The media was blamed for potentially tainting the jury pool.
Some jurors said they couldn't trust anything they read or watched on TV.
Fox2's M.L. Elrick, who shared a Pulitzer with reporter Jim Schaefer while at the Detroit Free Press for the Kwame Kilpatrick text message scandal, seems to have had enough.
Elrick writes in a piece posted on Fox2's website:
The defense attorneys in the Kilpatrick & Co. trial got up to speak on Friday.
And since their mouths were open, that could mean only one thing: Another chance to blame the media for Hizzoner's predicament.
Let's forget for a moment that Kwame Kilpatrick was forced from office in 2008 after admitting that he lied under oath, part of the plea deal he reached when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the 2008 text message scandal. It's also of little consequence that Kilpatrick pleaded no contest -- which is essentially a guilty plea -- to shoving a sheriff's deputy who tried to serve a subpoena at his sister's house during those legal proceedings.
