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The media poured resources into unmasking the single juror who refused to go along with the majority in the Lindsay Clancy case, treating an anonymous citizen as the real story while a sitting candidate for the U.S. Senate simply vanished from public view for nearly two weeks.James Talarico’s unexplained gap on the campaign trail drew little sustained curiosity from the same outlets that dug into juror backgrounds, past records, and personal details. Voters were left with a brief flu explanation and little else before he reappeared.When the press works harder to expose private individuals in a criminal trial than to account for a Democrat’s whereabouts during an election, the priorities speak for themselves.