Some major news broke out of Southern California as a local mayor was busted for acting as an agent of the communist Chinese government. The story was completely omitted from the Elitist Media broadcast evening news, and what coverage is  out there is an invitation to play “guess the party ID.” Watch as NBC News Now carried a story inexplicably unfit for broadcast on the Nightly News: embed TOM COSTELLO: We want to get to some breaking news out of California. The mayor of a small town just outside of L.A., facing federal charges now for acting as an illegal Chinese agent. The 58-year-old mayor will plead guilty for working at the behest of the Chinese government officials. She is accused of promoting propaganda that included dismissing alleged forced labor camps in her country, and her alleged coconspirator is on a 20 month sentence and she faces up to 10 years in prison. A thirty-second brief doesn’t always allow for fullness of details, but how do you not even mention the mayor’s name or partisan ID? Not only does the story get buried, but on top of that it’s a deliberate vaguepost missing the mayor’s name and partisan ID. I’m pretty certain that the story would’ve made it to network air had the mayor been a Republican, with full disclosure of the mayor’s name and partisan ID at the start and end of the item. A quick scan reveals that partisan ID was also magically missing from written reports on ABC, NBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Los Angeles Times, among many others. And those weren’t the only things missing from Tom Costello’s vague report. Per the DoJ indictment: Wang and (her advisor) Sun worked together to operate U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community. Wang and Sun received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website. For example, in June 2021, a PRC official contacted Wang and other individuals via the WeChat encrypted messaging application with pre-written news articles, including a PRC official-written essay in the Los Angeles Times that stated: “China’s Stance on the Xinjiang Issue – There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor to do defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability, weaken local economy, suppress China’s development[.]” Minutes later, Wang posted the article on her own website and responded to the PRC official with a link to the article on her website. The others in the group chat did the same. The PRC official responded: “So fast, thank you everyone.” In August 2021, Wang and three other members of the same group chat shared links to the same article on their respective “news” websites, after which the PRC official thanked them for their “reporting.” At the PRC official’s request, Wang made edits to the article, sent the official a link to the article reflecting the requested change, then sent the official a screenshot showing the article had been viewed 15,128 times. In response, the official messaged, “Great!,” Wang replied, “Thank you leader.” In sum, the mayor (and her now-convicted advisor) spread Chinese propaganda fed to them directly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The advisor’s indictment is even more frightening: “As an agent for the PRC, [Sun] worked covertly in the United States with his primary co-conspirator John Chen, a/k/a ‘Chen Jun,’” prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. “Chen was a high-level member of the PRC intelligence apparatus, who regularly attended elite [Chinese Communist Party] functions, including military parades…[and] met personally with PRC President Xi Jinping . . . . Per his own report, and other communications between Chen and PRC officials, [Sun] served as Chen’s right-hand man in the United States for decades.”  This seems to be part of an ongoing Chinese effort to meddle in our domestic affairs at a city level. This begs the question: how many more cities? How many other agents might there be out there? What other narratives are they trying to put out there? A non-Trump-deranged media would endeavor to get those answers. Sadly, that’s not the media we have.