It created a minor, if brief sensation, when it was revealed that SF mayor Willie Brown made a back room deal with the San Francisco Examiner trading political favors in exchange for an agreement not to criticize him on certain issues.
The disgraced Illinois Governor Blagovich was tape recorded threatening the Chicago Tribune with political retaliation if a certain reporter was not silenced. That's the real scandal of Blago: the threat of government retaliation to influence the content of the so called free press.
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