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The real story here is the fact that it has become normal for low level offenders to get early release in LA, and Paris Hilton can't get it because she's too famous.
Her early release would call attention to something conservative politicians don't want the rest of the country to learn -- that this is an overincarcerated country. We can longer afford those conservative fantasies of using jail as a quick and easy means of social control.
The reason why Salon can't cover this story from a factual point of view is quite simple -- the Democrats are only going to get back in the White House by winning the support of law enforcement.
Democrats aren't going to win that crucial law enforcement support by writing articles critical of overincarceration.
Since Democrats are politically constrained from any kind of serious or critical examination of the law enforcement decisions being made in this case, they're only left with the most shallow approach possible to this story.
