joining us now from east lansing, michigan, vincent duffy, chairman of the radio television digital newsion. and here in washington, richard prince who covers news about journalists of color in his online column. so, as journalists, i think we're used to politicians becoming convicted felons after they get elected so this is kind of an unusual thing. vince, you wrote about this for the newsletter. what happened here? >> well, this was really a problem of the newspaper to begin with. they just didn't cover it. they had a questionnaire that wantwaz david filled out and sent in and that's the basis of everything you need to know article that they had. after mr. davis was elected, the day after, they accomplish publ story throughout flint telling voters that he was a convicted killer something voters may have wanted to know before the election. >> his conviction was in his google results, the first page. why didn't they just at least google his name? >> i don't know. the editor of the newspaper apologized in an article and said that they didn't do a good job which is a bit of an understateme