"Thou shall not sully the party that gave birth to the Chosen One."

Back in mid-December I wrote a blog ("Dropping the D")about the propensity of the mainstream media to refrain from mentioning the party affiliation of those democrat politicians who become involved in scandals. Yesterday Baltimore's Democrat Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted on 12 counts as a result of a lengthy corruption investigation and true to form, the mainstream media either "Dropped the D" or buried it within their story in reporting this breaking story. Below is a story by Newsbusters reporter Mathew Balan regarduing CNN's report in this matter.

By Matthew Balan January 9, 2009 - 15:56 During a breaking news brief on Friday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips failed to identify the party affiliation of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, a Democrat, who earlier in the day had been indicted on 12 counts related to a corruption probe by Maryland state officials. She did identify Dixon as “the first woman to serve as the city’s mayor” and “the first African-American female to serve as that city’s mayor.” Phillips began the brief with a lament over corruption in politics in general: “Oh, as if we don’t have enough public corruption within our politics to report, we’ve got another piece of news that [is] just developing right now.” She then reported that the Baltimore mayor had been “indicted on public corruption...12 counts, I’m told -- perjury, theft, misconduct in office.” After describing some of the circumstances into the multi-year investigation, she continued her lament by focusing on the prestige of Dixon: “It’s a shame -- Mrs. Dixon was the first woman to serve as the city’s mayor -- also the -- you know, the first African-American female to serve as that city’s mayor.” The mayor’s Democratic affiliation was neither mentioned by Phillips during her brief, nor by CNN’s on-screen graphics.

Not unlike Democrat Governor Rod Blagojavich of Illinois, Mayor Dixon has made it clear that she has no intention of stepping down from her office as a result of this indictment and accompanying charges of corruption.

The Baltimore Sun newspaper ran a detailed story regarding Mayor Dixon's indictment but you have to read down to the fourth paragraph of the story before finding any mention of the Mayor's party affiliation.

Objective journalism be damned, abide by the commandment - "Thou shall not sully the party that gave birth to the Chosen One."