Mike Hendricks is the worst columnist in Kansas City.
Yesterday he was outsmarted by Glenn Beck.
You read that correctly.
Hendricks was looking for dirt on the wife of the Conservative talker on MYSPACE. (hehe)
And he was forced to come up with this correction after being humiliated in front of an audience of millions:
"Correction: I ended this column with a reference to a MySpace page for Glenn Beck’s wife, Tania Beck, to illustrate how much information people volunteer in their everyday lives. As it turns out, and as Beck pointed out on his radio broadcast today, the page is a phony."I think it's nice the Star let him write his own correction in such a snappy style . . . It almost obfuscates a very simple fact:
MIKE HENDRICKS AND THE KANSAS CITY STAR WERE SLAPPED AROUND BY A RADIO TALK SHOW HOST AND HIS WIFE FOR DOING THEIR RESEARCH ON ONE OF THE MOST OLD AND BUSTED OF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA SITES!!!
It would be a bad joke if real reporters weren't losing their jobs because Mike "He Just Learned About Google" Hendricks believes everything he reads online.
The defense that Hendricks offers is even more insulting . . .
HENDRICKS BLAMES THE INTERNETS RATHER THAN TAKING VERY MUCH RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN INCOMPETENCE!!!
The kind of corporate SUPREMACY that Hendricks holds in his heart is also revealing. He seemingly thinks that people believe every word of what they see on TV or in print and applies that same naive JoCo worldview to the Internets.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORANCE OF MIKE HENDRICKS IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE HE SEEMINGLY NEEDS A NANNY TO HELP HIM ON THE INTERNETS!!!
Seriously, if Hendricks needs some kind warning that random pages on MYSPACE(!!!) can't be trusted then he should also be required to wear his bicycle helmet all day long and whenever he steps out of his house.
Leave it to a Kansas City Star columnist to make such a pathetic display and prove once and for all that the organization has no understanding of the Internet.
Bottom Line Communications noticed the flub but was far too nice.
It's simply unbelievable that a grown man, working as a journalist and looking down his nose at Internet denizens was foiled by a de facto spam site for shitty bands.
IT'S TIME FOR THE STAR TO COMPLETELY CUT HENDRICKS AND HIS SALARY FOR AN OVERWHELMING FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND NEW MEDIA!!!
This would all be even more hilarious if Hendricks didn't already demonstrate he was an arrogant dweeb in a previous online embarrasment.
There are really good arguments about the Star's ability to adapt to the digital age. Very smart people make a great case for the importance of the paper, unfortunately none of those folks can defend Mike "Help Me Sign In" Hendricks and his stubborn Internet illiteracy.
You didn't disappoint me slappy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he'll retire after the Mayoral Election Cycle? Obviously, his time is long over. Mike, we hardly knew ye, big fella!
ReplyDeleteThe Star's current writers just make things up. They are so worried about getting fired. They should be.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why trashing Hendricks is such a turn-on for you.
ReplyDelete9:27 -- he claims to hate hendricks, but is one of the very first to link to his column, read it, and whine about it. TKC is pretty hopeless. Obviously jealous of this person he calls a "hack". Maybe it's because Hendricks gets paid to do his job.
ReplyDeleteWhat if you restrict your FB content to your FB friends, but you have 6,000,000,000 FB friends?
ReplyDeleteI don't know why linking everywhere to Alonzo Washington is such a turn on for him either. His blog just isn't that good.
ReplyDeleteremember that stupid mistake you made? or was that pure fiction?
ReplyDeleteeither/or
Don't cut and paste from Huffington post Mikey!
ReplyDeletealso stop following Dan Rathers "scoop" stories
reatard!!!
@11:09
ReplyDeleteThat's the difference... Tony TRIES to put out false information where Mike admits he messed up. It takes courage to do that. No, he's not the world's greatest columnist. But he's making an earnest effort.
It's so easy to call "fail" all the time if you don't have any standards to live up to yourself.
11:09: that is a good point. I think you have to keep reminding yourself that this is purportedly a humor blog--otherwise that makes Tony pathetic. I have been told he is actually a pretty nice guy, despite the snarkiness of this site...
ReplyDeleteHey 11:13, what the fuck is a "reatard"?
ReplyDelete1:04, get a mirror.
ReplyDeleteI think Hendricks has a classic liberal take. He was overly enthusiastic to bash a Conservative and look where it got him? Do your research Mike and don't be so quick to judge that which you obviously don't understand.
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