The networks are in Day Two of covering the mayor of Spokane, Jim West, a Republican who “opposes gay rights,” exposed by the Spokane Spokesman-Review as a visitor to gay chat rooms. They used a man posing as a teenager to lure West into a damaging news story. While a conservative media critic can see the potential news value of this story (at least to the local area), the national media ignored last year’s expose of former Portland Mayor (and former Carter cabinet official) Neil Goldschmidt, who had an actual affair with a non-fictional teenaged girl, despite the reporters on that story recently earning a Pulitzer Prize. If you’re gay and Republican and “opposing gay rights,” you’re apparently a much better news story to the liberal network news.