Small town media case study: Bloomington, Indiana.
A gender studies graduate with political ambitions (running for mayor) sexually harasses, then eliminates the program that funds the target of her unrequited lust. The icing on the cake (the major local paper) has nothing but unrelated happy news. The university student paper broke it:
For comparison, local daily didn't get the details up until about 20m ago, when the woman announced the suspension of her campaign.