Baltimore Mayor Struggles in Response to Riots

This article on CNN is about Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the riots that are now occurring in the city of Baltimore.  Back when the Ferguson riots were going on, she took part in a panel that worked on ways to help cities in situations like this and what is currently taking place in Baltimore. Many feel that of any big city mayor, she should have been one of the best-prepared mayors in the United States, but that is not the case.  The riots in her city have injured 15 police officers, there is looting gone wild and building in smoke as she struggles to figure out what went wrong.  The media is quite happy to inform everyone on their very narrow view of just exactly what went wrong. In Chapter 5 Denton and Kuypers writes about media and politics, and about traps and clarification that can occur while reporting the news, this is exactly what happened in this situation.  The press is reporting that Rawlings-Blake said one thing and she is stating that she said something very different.  Where the problem lies is her city is having large riots and she sat on a panel to help create ways to avoid these types of situations so that they would not have the same type of outcome as it did in Ferguson, which is the trap. The clarification is what she actually said, what the media actually reported is not the true clarification of what was meant by her statement, and the media is spinning so that they can sell newspapers.