Here’s a story from KSHB in Kansas City, explaining how police obtained a search warrant for a home which resulted in no more than a little hurt feelings. It’s relevance for El Paso relates to public information.
“Nobody wants to be on the nightly news or front page of the paper explaining a scandal, and they don’t worry about that in this state because they know the media isn’t going to get ahold of it,” Bob Harte said.
In most of the country, the media tries to investigate the opaque machinations of government. In El Paso, government gets a pass.