KANSAS CITY STAR 3D EDITION WAS AN OVERWHELMING DEAD TREE MEDIA FLOP!!!



For the record d-bags . . . No, The Star didn't screw up all of their pictures on Sunday.

The messed up looking Kansas City Sunday edition is simply part of the most misguided and misinformed marketing gimmick every undertaken by a media institution in the midst of financial collapse.

THE STAR'S 3D EDITION WAS A HUGE FLOP GIVEN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE CONTACTING TKC AND ASKING WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON WITH THE SO-CALLED PAPER OF RECORD AND THEIR SCREWED UP PAGES YESTERDAY?!?!?

In a nutshell:

Here's what was wrong ...

There was only one set of glasses buried inside the paper.

The 3D effort was really a throwback to the 1950's and doesn't really understand the new tech that's leading the way in movies and TV which relies on new technology and not just red and blue color spectrum tricks.

The 3D photos looked like crap even with the glasses.

3d is a fad for dimwit hipsters and children and not the Senior Citizen subscriber base of the Star.

For all these reasons and more . . . The Star's mistake on Sunday was epic and another sign that they're circling the toilet bowl of history.

Comments

  1. Hair of the Dog11/1/10, 6:45 AM

    Either trying to read the "Star" or all the beer I drank during the game yesterday gave me a terrible headache this morning.
    I'm blaming the "Star"!
    What a stupid idea!!

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  2. I want my money back

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  3. Tony you mommys basement blog is sooooo much better.

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  4. This 3D bullshit the Star did is the final straw. I and other old fogies are cancelling my subscription.

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  5. I cancelled my subscription.

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  6. Old people bitch about everything. Good riddance.

    I thought it was neat. Not an everyday thing, but still pretty cool. Of course, it's so much easier to piss and moan about everything than actually contribute to the world, but that's par for TKC.

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  7. You got it 9:12.. the only reason people come to this blog is to laugh at Tony's stupid view of life. For actual news you go to local news websites, or read the paper. Tony is the kid nobody liked in school, hell I bet no westside mexicans even fuck with Tony, once a loser always a loser.

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  8. It was probably an experiment to see if they could pull off 3-D, and if so, then they'd sell advertising with it.

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  9. You write about The Star all the time.

    I never read anything about TKC in the paper.

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  10. -doesn't really understand the new tech that's leading the way in movies and TV which relies on new technology and not just red and blue color spectrum tricks.-

    Tony doesn't understand that anaglyphs (and lenticular) are one of the only ways to get a 3-D rendering with ink on paper. Polarizers are for projected images, alternating shutter glasses for lcd screens.

    Dumbshit.

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  11. KC Star = stupid assholes!!!!

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  12. 11:43... calm down Tony....at first you said you didn't read comments, now you post comments on your own blog.......LOSER

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  13. I want to read a newspaper. If it takes 3-D pictures to sell a newspaper than stop firing all the investigative reporters. Journalism is not reading with a pair of 3-D glasses.

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  14. 12:47, no but following TKC is like seeing the world with shit covered glasses.

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  15. Bwahhhh Ha Ha11/1/10, 4:25 PM

    I liked this comment, if only for it's obvious disconnect from the reality that was staring straight at this person.

    "It was probably an experiment to see if they could pull off 3-D, and if so, then they'd sell advertising with it".

    Experiment No. Ad sales, yes.

    If any of you had bothered to actually read the rag you would of noticed the halfway clever 3D association that Time Warner and Champion Windows tossed at you in their full page 3D ads.

    Just in case you didn't realize it, the only reasons there is news at all in the paper is to get you to subscribe to it.

    And that my friends is what drives ad rates.

    As the old saying goes...

    "If you had to pay the cost of producing that rag, you couldn't afford it".

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  16. Tell me 4:25, how many people reading those classified ads these days?

    Nobody wants to read halfway clever ads, we want excellent news coverage, investigative journalism and decent photojournalism. Something the Star isn't too worried about.

    But thanks for pointing out just how sadly unsuccessful the whole stupid stunt was, will your mention of those companies get counted into the ad rate? If so, I think you owe Tony a cut.

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    - Mark

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